the bird lay helplessly on the soft cement, its eye sockets were empty and its feathers were torn up. dreaming a little dream that consisted of empty space, the contents of its mind both literal and figurative. the rot had set on swiftly, the skin was putrid smelling, the pustules were brimming with the **** of death made swelling. framed on the ground by ants crawling all around its flesh, they slid in and out they played within the body's ruins. the bones were now made of rope, the feathers petrified, the bird lay so still, dreaming a sleep about a sky full of nothing speckled red and brown and green and blue and somehow reminding me of myself in relation to you and you and you and all of you to all of me to every last ****** bit of you, I give you a dead, departed, decaying corpse who will never fly again. I will never fly again. I will never fly again. just let me lay and rot upon the cement, *I will never fly again.