Here it is, home on a plate
steam comes up after the frying pan
did as the raccoon coffee poured
streaming across the street
looking for an ocean states away
having forgotten that the world is unresponsive
to the pleas of squirrels and the deliberate tires
who's fateful meeting could be ascribed
to either nature or nurture
as you please, and according to your faith
in yourself, your country, your theories
while a conversational story:
this is where I was
comes out unruffled
after circling the lake
I, the vulture,
seeing my body from above
waiting a little longer to feast.
Roman Ryan 