birdbrain

you stood by the sea

    & cried

for the blood

  you did not want.

you thought the seagulls mocked you

    & yes  they were

      they were mocking someone.

  you had no books to help you

      you had not those

  & you did not care for that.

words then. for a broken thing.

   or none.

just birds

going mental.

2018