That Grinning Crow

 A heart aches

For the flames

Literal kick-start

Clutch

Back and forth

Heel on heart

Heel on black tar

Down girl, down 

Drag this thing around

Bits of flesh

Scrape behind a dumpster darling

Grinning, road rash

Infects us all

To look up at lightning

Might be the way to die

Sizzling tin cans

Charred big turks

Old shirts

Questionable stains

Just like me

Down wash me away

Grind me further into

Glistening asphalt

A treat for the crows

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