Death row <br />Draws closer to expiry <br />Your use by date <br />Rings <br />Legs that cannot walk <br />Ovals of eggs <br />Bounce free <br />In rivers of wire <br />Only to harden <br />As you have <br />No room to preen you stand <br />Half beak gaping <br />Ready to tear <br />Feathers from your neighbour <br />Beady eyed your spirit drifts <br />Blood drenched <br />On clipped wings<br /><br />Simone Inez Harriman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-row-5/
