Songs Are For Birds

(oh!

i just kissed

you on the lips! and yes

songs are for birds and they sing things like

please stay! please stay!

the jay sings those shameless tunes over sidewalks for anyone every day,

and for whoever comes by the grackle always chimes

don’t go away! don’t go away!

and their tunes never change, ah so they say— but, oh!

so well did we do! our first night on stage!

memorized the sheets and made up a song that went

mine too! mine too!

with a few variations-

and that’s what we sang til the birds

sang again the same way)