LEGIINTIMES

dead swan makes sidewalk cry    tourists skip step     on bridge of legions    step on    asking how to contact authorities    which authorities    bureau of animal waste    public welfare offices    board of tourism    anyone have a phone    a phone    anyone    a phone    picture snaps    mummy look    look    coiled neck resemble letter 's'    resentment    disgrace    or helplessness    concealed in picturesque beauty    wings gracing belly in final flight composition    with decomposition imminent    long before the fading of digital reproduction    swept upon heavy shore of digital noise    the grey    classified in countless banks of identical grey    strip follows strip    first body is severed    next strip of perfect grey scaffolding wings    soot from traffic    asphalt particles    working on additional palette of grey    adding grey to grey    wings undergo dreary makeover    twisted neck like twisted letter    not close to meaning    flesh soon trampled into non-existence    body escapes alphabet    whole dramatic display defused    resemble resilient pile of snow    worn down and discolored by steady waves of traffic    pile of deconstructed waste and carnage    slow to accept its demise