despite it all

(Found here)

there were twelve birds

on the television antenna

on the roof below my window

I counted them

and then one lifted up

and then two

and then three flew away

there are nine birds

and then they too lift up

and fly away

and then one comes back

and then two

there are twelve

no thirteen birds

on the television antenna

on the roof below my window

I count them

and then one lifts up

~Denver Butson