Photograph of…

Human eyes/Caged despair and ticket stubs/Many things can be wrong and more all at once/Something was made to hang/Between two windows/To gather dust/And be the object of the piece of writing that isn’t much anyway/Many things can be human/Reflected by a wall of glass/An animal became human/A girl became a caged animal/Both are lonelier than ever/The little girl has brown hair/And a face that is not hers/Depends on the angle/Or if the stairs have been swept/Will it rain today?/Will you cover your face?/Depends on the camera lens/Her day-time ritual/No sudden movements/No broken dishes/Windows of themselves/Existing for greed/As uniform as vertical glass/What a trick of the light/A bleak commentary/Winters are so depressing here/With no jacket no money no name for yourself/Save this framed illusion/Two things at once/An animal so human/A person so lonely/Two people but only if you see it that way/Crowded in empty delight/Tastes processed/Dirty like the bottom of the cage with poor lighting/Just enough to see/Enough for depression to set in/Seep through stealthy behind the glass wall/Rotten fruit at the bottom of the cage/Grime everywhere it shouldn’t be/Should be green/Sprouting fruit on its own/Terrible things killed both people in that photo/If not today then soon/If not them then me.