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Daily(ish) poem → 00304 ◊ Walking Like a Robin ◊ Bernadette Mayer
Walking Like a Robin
take 3 or 4 steps then stop
look smell taste touch & hear
is there anything to eat?
oh look, there’s some caviar
it must be my birthday, thanks
i must be very old, like seventy
i guess i’m falling apart, i’ll just
sew myself back together but will it last?
please take a piece of me back home, each piece
is anti-war and don’t pay your rent, in fact
remember: property is robbery, give everybody
everything, other birds walk this way too
—Bernadette Mayer
—found in Works and Days (2016)