mayflies
raze one of these things
is not like your brother,
who was never born
but might have grown
to be an enemy
or an ally.

there isn't always
so much distance
between the two.

your eyes talk to tell
you what you're seeing:

a long, fibrous wire
of tendons and twine,
with the body it guides
somewhere out of sight.

your eyes are liars.
this is no rat's tail.

it's the first mayfly
the year has seen fit
to send you, one month late
and minutes removed
from dying.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from