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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Birdsong


 What came first, the bird or the Egg?

Passages flown with air,
Molecular divisions sift
Honeycomb walls
Into ventricles
Ventricles called Atria.

Oxygen
Carbon-Dioxide
Traded
Cross flow
Sera
Serum
Capillaries Diffusion

The entire cavity of the body of a bird
Acts as a bellows, afforded our
Feathered friends to move air through their lungs

Bones fuse
Singular
Ossifications

Pygostyle
Computer for the tail

Hollowed
Criss-crossing strut
Trusses of strength
Pneumatized
Fly
---supracouideus flapping
between the beat of wings

“Hey, Bird Brain, sing for me?”

Tweet
Tweet
Tweet
Chirp
Chirp
Chirp

“ I said sing, I know you can do better than that”
(Lines up the Winchester—up, down, side to side)

Birds are known for their beautiful voices
Even that of the Raven
Or that of baby vultures
--speaking of which- all babies are the same- from fish to birds to oxen, from gorillas to lynx, to Human beings—all depend upon others, or predators will feast.  Yes predators will feast.

But digression aside, birds go great with coffee
No, not in the edible sense
But that gets me thinking- hmm.. Do all birds taste like chicken?

“Enough of this, sing, sing, sing or else”

So, when the bird wants to sing
It merely opens up Syrinx
No, different spelling
I don’t believe there are temples in avian vox
Perhaps…
But different still
Really, how?

Fly away
Come fly away
Hollowed bones
Grab the wind
Spread your wings
Fly from here
Fly away
I’ll dream you’ve travelled
Travelled far
To a special place
One you’ll love
One you’ll never want to leave

They say, birds do anyhow,
That the family that flies together…

And I’ll wait for you
I’ll wait
For your springtime serenade

So, what became of Mr., hmm, never caught his name, so I’ll call him Sylvester Fudd?

Well the details are unclear
But the Winchester never left his ear
And the song was said to have been
So beautiful even he cried for ten.