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Friday, October 21, 2016

Birds Still Diving

I wrote this verse four years ago and present it again here, for though the avian personnel may be of a new generation, the game is still the same.
 
Desiccated and sere a blob of bird poop right here
in the center of the windshield.
 
The bucket, rag and soap; now it’s clean, for good we hope.
Wring the rag, swirl the pail, toss the water in the grass.
 
Awk! What iridescent flash o’er my head did I see pass?
Grackle Bomber in a dive on the scene does now arrive.
 
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*SPLAT*
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Dead-center hit.
The windshield again besmeared with it.
 
The End

4 comments:

  1. Ha! That's life in a beautiful area that includes trees and gardens.

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  2. Grackles can be nasty in that way. I remember watching one make a deposit in a woman's hair in the open-air restaurant where we were having lunch.

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  3. Vee, minor aggravation, major beauty.

    Chuck, eau d' ignominy. Glad it was someone else, weren't you?

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