Take what you can get
without complaint.
Pluck the meat from other lives.
Snatch the sky-blue robin’s egg.
No one likes your throaty caw.
Drown out the songbirds.
Pick the trash.
Swallow the discarded.
Look at your wings
in the sunlight, iridescent.
Find what shines. Snag it.
Lift it to the gods.
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