runaway

1.

hardly had she been collected

from the street, from the trash, from the unexpected

that she’d been looking for

when she was already left on her own

hardly ever had she been collected

in one life, or another, as a matter

2.

and now, as a rarity, or oddity

depending of impression,

in something like collection

under magnifying glass,

an eye

which seems to reach quite everywhere,

splitting its conclusions about everything

biting, chewing, swallowing and vomiting it out again

breathing, eating, thinking it before you did,

selling you to highest bid.

so that she would try to turn back home,

she thought,

and kept on running.