Clark Gormley #43 Film Noir Scene 2

in the dead of the evening

while frogmouths are feeding

and frogs may be breeding

but no one’s around

you’d be dead-set thick-headed

to venture through forests

where only the fauna

hear you make a sound

but it’s dead set unfeasible

to call for a doctor

or hail a police car

when you have no pulse

at all

it’s the dead who tell no tales

don’t update their status

and they never answer

when you try to call