the newspaper
spread out
like a tablecloth
obituaries
on one side
comics on
the other
the dead
smiling the
comics tragic
black white
gray world
made of
fuzzy dots
an obsolete
medium ready
to line the
bottom of
the song
bird’s cage
a nightingale
whose love
call goes
unanswered
Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM UTC
the newspaper
spread out
like a tablecloth
obituaries
on one side
comics on
the other
the dead
smiling the
comics tragic
black white
gray world
made of
fuzzy dots
an obsolete
medium ready
to line the
bottom of
the song
bird’s cage
a nightingale
whose love
call goes
unanswered
