An unclaimed parrot

enunciates "enunciate"

and elucerates an anthem

passed on to him by KS

just before he died



A shining sun

floats above the wind

"heavy things can float

it's a matter of faith,"

says the unclaimed parrot



A smallish children

with eyes like bees

pollinating all he sees

sees the unclaimed parrot

"This parrot is mine."



A children's parrot

can't express the sadness

at having to mold

a mind as shallow

as the bee-eyed children



Eighty years have passed

A parrot claimed and unclaimed

living on through loss

no teeth to lose

enunciates "enunciate"



A melody on a breeze

under still floating sun

that sighs a sigh

looses magnetic hands

into the wind



An undying parrot

Commiserates with a drunk

who used to be a children

with bee eyes

but grew old



An olden drunk

with eyes no longer winged

stares at rows of bottles

lined up gleaming

whistles with wet lips



the words forgotten

of a dead man's anthem

he never understood

what the words meant

until he'd lost them



An unlucky parrot

stares eagerly at the man

whispers to the wind

"I am unclaimed,

I stay unclaimed."



A curious bartender

rubbing ashes from the air

overhears the whisper

but cannot credit the bird

perched in the window



Parrot's eyes meet the man's

say clearly

"I am old,

I will outlive you,

believe what you will."



An unclaimed parrot

perches on a streetlamp

elucerates his anthem

off into the dark