five birds rest on a utility wire
I did not build for them but
which they seem to benefit from
or from which they seem to benefit
or I understand where they’re
coming from or I wish I were
them, benefitting from fine lines
someone else has built during a
season of resilience or this is
the season of our resistance or
I must resist this propensity to
rest or it’s hard to resist when
fine lines are being built on which
I can rest if I choose though
it’s winter and there seems to be
so much to do and so little time
to rest or the birds of winter are
resting in resilient decadence or
I’m not resting when there’s so
little time left for resistance
Or
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