we lost the body but have the chicken’s head still

all i wanted

was all of it

all i ever

needed was

everything

and all i got

was to be

forgotten

*

we consume

until our innards

come out to bare with us

as we sift through garbage

of a city coating us with ideas

of greatness and sky

though we only touch it coming down

faster than expected

too fast to think of much of anything

which is why we plummet

which shows when we are exposed

to be gobbled up again

by the other failed and thankless birds

*

she comes

not for your poems

but to become

your poetry

*

how we come together

only to come apart

with lonely

how how how