Thursday, August 1, 2024

a flat armadillo

once round and rumbling through fields

it wasn't the last tire - my tire -

but the first that killed you;

it wasn't the last phone call

but first that started the demise.


how I, also armor-clad, didn't resist

but instead flattened, pancaked,

myself into his road grooves -

while he, also, pressed me into the street.

it was my shell that cracked first.


yet, at the beginning, I was thankful 

for him breaking down my walls; now

he is the one dead while I waddle on.

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