Smaller Pieces

5.

A few kids leaning out a window
baited some gulls with pizza crust
throwing it in the street and
taking turns with a bb gun
one bird was hit and couldn't fly
its outstretched wings a sick embrace
and it eventually wandered off
not knowing how to give up
and I thought it might have been
okay that it probably healed on its own
i like to believe that's how it happened
hopefully so.