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The Aviary MAG

July 1, 2013
By Batsby GOLD, Henderson, Nevada
Batsby GOLD, Henderson, Nevada
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Favorite Quote:
Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared.


You flew like a bird through my consciousness,
The wings like silk
But beating nonetheless

I let you take flight within my darkness
Landing to perch on my sternum
Dripping obscenities down my spine.

You picked me apart with your sharp beak
Swallowing pieces of me whole
And regurgitating them into my lap.

I could never make you sing for me
But your hollow bones whistled as you flew
So I fell into the sound.

And when you began molting
Growing gaunt despite my efforts
I began to lose my feathers too.



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