Endangered! by Tessa Sagner

Endangered!

Now you’re endangered, racing down population graphs sloping into verticality, free fallen into other countries you will move to when you can finally find them on a map

when there is nobody like you except a long time ago and who knows where but maybe you

And they all changed into sensible shoes or else they got stuck to it and it wrapped around them too tight and came down their throats and choked them at an embarrassing age, sad how these things happen but you have to know them to live, see your future in the past

You are running out of predators and it’s killing you, poached and pinioned, nothing without a hunter beating on your bed

so do it yourself

Scrabbling at the latched fences sprung up on every corner

Without your heavy-lidded girls with wires screwed up in them and puddled in corners to call you in early morning hours, 

Leaving no blood on your doorstep these days

So you summon it up yourself by store-bought pentagram