Detroit Lake

Quick the hawk took the poor thing
 Just to the left of me
 You were mid-sentence when I had to interrupt you
 In order to relate
 Two grey stripes flew up out of sight
 I mean one, the other no longer struggling
 I cannot hear you laughing up the mountainside
 Unobserved, my voice grew
 Increasingly gruesome in the quiet
 Turns out
 It turns out
 One can lose nonetheless
 Looking for witnesses
 Miles from all that's between us at stake
 Algae blooms up in Detroit Lake
 Listening for my turn to come next
 Leave the same as I came in
 More or less
 Across the table words fly
 Underdone they rarely collide
 Former wells are exhausted
 So you pose the question
 "Are pigeons ever cannibalistic?"
 Turns out
 It turns out
 Sometimes yes
 Looking for witnesses
 Miles from all that's between us at stake
 Algae blooms up in Detroit Lake
 Listening for my turn to come next
 Leave the same as I came in
 Miles from all I believe is at stake
 Algae blooms up in Detroit Lake
 Listening for my turn to come next
 Leave the same as I came in
 More or less