born_free_died_expensively raze someone's cooking a symphony broke his elbow bruised his knee he was born wide-eyed and free but died very expensively and for all the love he gave all he gets is told to grind his affection down to where it won't call attention to itself from the cradle to the coffin from the riptide to the dirt the only sound we've got to guide us is the moaning of inevitable uninhabitable spaces straw man for all the good it'll do makes a voodoo doll with wire and some fabric cruel to the crows not much kinder to the farmhand a fatalistic reply from the carnivores who birthed him regret won't swallow a sigh without knowing where it's bound 160114 ... unhinged . 160114 what's it to you? who go blather from