12-19-2013, 01:22 PM
Quote:Entropy
It's us. Our big pink eyes are scared and dumb.
My brother's rabbit jumps, tumbles, and thumps
His way into the corner. Digs at the rug,
Wisely. Left a jagged, "So long, bub!"
On me bleeding. And my brother, my brother, is numb . . .
Talked to his wife today about the law,
Of all things. Puzzles over his accounts and slumps
His way into the kitchen for a beer. We don’t have any.
Sharp, grey eyes, cold, hungry, don't
Follow him. But once, they would have lunged.
They'd take the sick. It was better. Now we think
Doctors, ammo, medicine, and guns
Are best. And entropy alone we leave to kill us.
We walk, slouching, and where would we run?
I was cutting the hedge at noon today
When I saw the slim end of a tail slide
Over broken holly leaves, drifting
Slowly, poorly camouflaged. It was Christmas,
And I thought, "It’s cold out. Snakes should be under rocks,
Hidden." And I wondered what had woke him . . .
It's incomplete, and you seem to be going backwards. You should probably slow down.
Why the repetition? why the "bub" nonsense? /what's/ "us"?
And BTW I'm finding the Caps to start the lines confusing.

