The ones who speak
the fish the sea the sky
their language is mumbled
as the trees sway
and show their golden glory.
The sky is blue
but rains
a grey mumble
through the earth.

After you make friends,
be who you are,
crawl out of your shell.

Test your friends to
see if they're really friends.

Don't pretend to be new
anymore. Same town,
same school, same you.

To land on the wet ground and hear
The crunch of the leaves.

I fly away to return in the spring.

Then she puts all sorts
of candy in my brother's
lunch bag and I get
a piece of chocolate
and 1 jelly bean.

And she does not care
if I'm in the car she only
cares if my brother
is she could forget me
at home and she wouldn't
care as long as my
brother is in the car.

His friends are the big hunters on the ground. His enemy
the birds in the sky. The leopard wishes he could fly and
only likes the lions and tigers because they suffer from
envy too.

got home my dad said that someone
stole my bike I said not again Dad.

I said what happened this time my
dad said after I took you to
school I rode to work. He said

Then I locked it outside on the
bike rack then when I came out
it was gone.
I said what are
you gonny do now you're not gonny go
get another one again are you.

He said yes I have to if I want
to get around he said.

but now it's dirt and grass, more trees than
ever, all overgrown. Now the way to the
river was closed, with branches
the Boardwalk was razed,
nothing was like the Artist had planned it
everything overgrown.

In the forest lay mismatched sculptures
some stolen and beheaded. Everything a
mystery now buried old ashes form in
clumps from old fires at night roaming
with rodents out in the wild.