cw: none

The canary started eating paper
as a way to try and cope.
It needs words like it needs water,
and since it could no longer make its own song,
it chose to devour the ones written.
Now, it chokes on them whenever
it is not being hurt
by the humans who promised to protect and cherish it.
Perhaps if it gathers enough words,
its voice will come back.
Or maybe its feathers will regrow,
and it can fly away.