going up, coming down

the following are two people in an elevator realizing how lonely they are and how worthless the realization is for no eye contact is made, the floor is reached, and nothing is said by either.

*

the moon

in a lake

cannot be saved

from drowning

only emptied

into a glass

that blurs back

to a circle

that still controls

the waves of both

*

a man

runs from being

a man

for he has hoped

for something more

than

a man

is supposed to:

something worth

the woah, man

*

i have seen

a caged bird

pluck its own feathers

so that even if it

were free

it would still wait

for food from my

hand

and for me to pick up

the last bleeding bits

after it were asleep and engorged

*

all we have done

is not enough

for all do not

have enough done