Pigeons

Expectations will get you hurt
like gun violence never ending
what you report, repeat, report
shapes the future.

You who orchestrate, perpetuate, titillate
this slow burning, slow motion Apocalypse,
can't you see David Bowie is trying to warn us now?

No, because we can no longer pay attention.

Don't look at our dead cities - we don't,
I mean, unless you happen to live there,
and then no one will ever hear what you have to say
anyway...

Today there was a hawk perched up on the roof
outside my workplace window de-feathering its kill,
and those feathers slowly spun to the ground in the most
enchanting way.