Pigmas 2022-23 3 January

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A cluster of vultures
patiently waiting their turn
where the deer carcass lays
along the railroad track.
They shift and flap
rip into unfeeling flesh
leap away to make room
for the next worshipper.
A black mass in honor
of death and hunger,
a last compassionate act
in a world without mercy.