take the pound of flesh.
take the beating, bloody heart.
death the final debt.
Haikus
peace of hunger
belly full of blood.
cadavers floating in bile.
hungering for peace.
bowed heads
rust in the gray dust.
snow falling like wet feathers.
bowed heads rock and claw.
trap slap
in a lobster trap.
stuck in the murky bottom.
my crustacean pain.
hammer legs
the lungs stretch inward.
but there is no space for breath.
the legs hammer on.
bitten byte
greasy smudged wet sky.
pixelated fuzzy day.
speak in bits and bytes.