Dead Hawk

A hawk lying dead
beside railway tracks
over dry gravel stones-
That was the closest
I saw a hawk

It looked like a bloated
small sized black
plastic bag
filled with garbage
abandoned
almost buried
in the hot gravel stones
spit upon in passing
pissed upon in evening



Majesty, nobility etc.
are bonus levels
to hog points
in the game played seriously
by the living

While dead,
this hawk
could have easily
been mistaken
for a regular dead crow
with its beak open
and feathers apart
like how they are usually found
next to a railway track


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