Memorial I'm leaving your entrails Scattered to the sky Carrion assisted regeneration Yet, consciousness remains Ever waiting Blurred faded outlines Reminants of ancient beings Dinosaur descendants canopy sing Sciurus fears the man He, the thought, visited again The pain and remonsterances Still missing He, the thought Wishing for a reunion Destined to miss Moss protected fallen one Only gratitude On The Outs I died that day slowly Gathering clouds that never condensed Am dying still today With spasms now And tremors from the medication My brain is broken Nobody knows when or how Only is They locked me away "For my own good" they said Another inmates dirty underwear strewn across the room hanging on the only chair greeted the slow dying At least I wasn't hooked up to dialysis At least no one was permanently injured or killed or inconvenienced I died again that day When the police were called Pretending the handcuffs were too tight Feigning tortured to remind you what you did And didn't do How was I to know That everyone had made other plans None of which were commensurate How was I to know I would not be able to mourn The death of him When the grieving ended Gratitude was left Wandering the forest The forest bereft of game or clean water Lonely forest walks to a lake Populated by capitalists blowing off steam And broken sewer mains Dying forgotten only temporarily Forest remnant a trophy that mocks You didn't kill me but I died that day