Borrowed birdeyes

My eyes are sent into an eagle.

The city is sound sieged and draped in star-stealing electric hangover.

On the clocktower, watching zeppelins bobbing like cartoon jellyfish,

Rosy fireballs rising in a fabulous stream, away out of sight,

The dreams and prayers and hopes:

For cures, for alms, for doping balms, for ends to plight.

My eyes return to me,

Head addled with dwarf-short stories I contort to legend for my own glory:

A flock of seagulls, pigeons on a ledge, breeding foxes, hogs of hedge.

Watching neon joggers run along in shocking fog along the river edge,

Empty cans, albino scum froth, and water filth congregate at locks.

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