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Book 25 Page 39
The window performance
Fly upon the window
trying to escape
before the sun gets too hot and it
all becomes too late.
Buzzing left, / buzzing right,
buzzing up and down.
In his glassy prison, ...
bound.
Latter he;
buzzes on the window ‘sill’
when it’s near enough.
This will be ‘the final act’
before the fly gives up.
And this dance of death
is not ‘pretend’
for soon the flies life will
tragically end;
and for this fly
the curtain will close.
Then I’ll; sweep it off the window sill
and in the bin it goes.
© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 8/1/00