POWER OUTAGE

After Xi Chuan

**Get it through your bright head**

IF These lines == Nowhere to hang THEN

The cut-up forests were proven to cause the floods

ELSE

I say it another way. The birds

you know the ones that are always singing

pink noise? Those birds that, when you squint,

become the blackened-in circles of tea

–tee-tah-tah-tee-tee-tee-tee-tah?

Those birds have nowhere to perch!

END IF

DO WHILE No trees == No lines

You may begin your search for matches

LOOP

END