Swallow

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We take our lessons in consumption from the television - when we can but look at a mother bird feeding its young.

Engrossed with millions of Americans
in others’ misfortunes

movement distracts me
from the nearly two-hundred pound nine year old on tv

you carry a juicy earthworm in your bone-colored beak
to feed three tiny, ravenous chicks
nestedinthefosterholly
outside my window



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