too-gether

agglomeration unpromises a good attitude
to the multitudes who participate in aggregation
togetherness is loving but loving is shoving
and shoving makes doves out of divers and
grubs out of crustaceans 

that's cooperation in a nut's shell, where
the meat meets the day, there are a few
arboreal rodents on hand to break into
crow town and provide a little more
than a not-quite-picked clean
chicken bone to the dot dot dash telephone
tired birds

adaptation is the vulture
death opposes culture
infinitude conditions the weather
to wipe out the specialness
that demands room for every
snow and flurry

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