brainstorming with birdwatchers boidbrains
females have a single ovary
males getiton via a cloaca
also called a ventboring leaving it cloaca more mysterious Abracadabra
we need
mysterious birds
dodos
auks
moas
Sharon
Tasty
Tate
Ohno no, that’s in bad taste; really,
Sharon Tate?
Birds hunted to extinction
he
didnt play nicehe wasnt the kind he also wasnt
a birder he liked birds but he wasnt cuckoo for Coco Puffs
through no fault of his owninadvertently he found himself mixedup in an enthusiastic roiling
nest who gratified each other spouting memorised avian facts this and that they almost made him feel bad he had a
Cornish hen for dinner the night before
once upon a time his
daughters thought it was crazy they had a whole little chicken to themselveslike when they
ate smelt after smelt they had whole
fishies to themselves
it was a raucous nest
he thought thered be more feathers itd
be softer lotsa twigs poking him in the ribs and armpits mildewed scraps of
paper grass moss pine needles and leaves
when they went off he let em riff
he was happy to sit still and listen to them
unlikely hed retain birds names
their habitats or ranges
however he found it disturbing when they wouldnt answer the only question he asked
Yes? What?
Ya heard me I read it a
Smithsonian article some male birds are polygamous
So again is there
a difference between a redheaded acorn woodpecker and an acorn redheaded
woodpecker
when they wereparticularly when he felt cornered he obfuscatedredirected
Are
you high?
As a matter of fact I am
Ya think
I could make it through a Friends of the Flock they
hooked him with flockmuffled their mouths made it sound like fuck without tweakingaltering my honed perceptions
Although although I have to admit I rememberstand back give me some room he cleared his throatAHEM A cast cauldron kettle of birds of prey
a chain of Bobolinks chainlinked
songsters a chatter of Budgerigars common or shell parakeets
a wake of Buzzards fussinfeastin on funereal carrion Save some soft bits for me
a college conclave radiance Vatican of Cardinals a mewing of Catbirds a banditry
of Ohbrother Mae
West of Chickadees W
Cs Cummin
my little chickadee an WHEWat long last a peep of Chickens
they looked at himtheir mouths agape lookin like hungry chicks
Stop stopstop ya don shut your mouths Ill feed you a mealworm
he was highnot stupid
besides that shit was fun a murder of crow
boids
after 1600, Saturday,
21 8. 21
1212, Monday,
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