By n’ Buy

It's an illusion

that the canary

in the coal mine

sings...

the Operatic

panicking

heard in the

too limited

acoustics

of its captive

audience

makes us

mistake the

extraordinary

for the ordinary

& when the

strange concert

-ed effort ends

there are not

enough chairs

to sit to clap in

& the heads up

above peering

down do still

grotesquely

believe we're

doing the right-

thing even though

the mule's gone

blind & the song

has died & the

coal, petrol, gems

& metal finally

have no one

left nearby...

03.20.2023

Canary in a mine shaft challenge @HeartofaWolf