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Poetry / THE BIRD THAT WON"T STOP SINGING

Dear Journal,

THE BIRD THAT WON’T STOP SINGING

Today’s story if it had to be told, would begin as I awoke to the sound of a bird singing the most beautiful silliliquote just outside my window. It’s exact breed I can’t quite put my finger on, though it’s right there at the tip of my tongue. I go in for a closer look, though I’m a very tentative in my approach, I don’t want to startle this untamed beauty and have it fly away before i have an answer.

As my gaze catches site of it’s existance, right at that exact moment, just as I’m catching sight of it’s dark shadowy figure perched high in the branches above my window, right then, at that very second, somewhere in a far away place in the world:

A baby is thrown out with the bath water, another is born, two grade eighter’s decide to embark on their first touch and feel type of french kiss, a set of street lights in a major downtown core short circuit and reak rush hour havoc on its city, a shopping bag lady gets mugged, a winning lotto ticket is claimed and a choir sings the lords praises.

Mercury starts to enter retrograde and all Pisces are in for the ride of their lives. A young Brownie awakens from a daydream of unknown substance (though a kitten is involved somehow), only to find herself where she left off, climbing up the symbolical ladder with the rest of her brownie quadrant (they’ve named themselves the “The Elves”). The Elves are about to embark on the walk to “Girl Guidiem”.

A missed shot in sudden death overtime, allows for the other team to take the rebound and score, it’s all over for the local NHL team in the Stanley Conference playoffs and then suddenly with out notice to any of the bystanders, a young man is hit on his motorcycle by a bus while on route to his best friend’s garage. He had hoped to fix his brakes that day. His name is Paul. Paul doesn’t make it to the hospital, but instead meets his maker…

all the while, that untamed bird keeps on singing it’s beautiful tune …...same maker

.ME

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June 19, 2006

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this was a good piece. however, i did find it a bit choppy. but i liked how you took one situation then added in a bunch of other things that were going on, then came back to the original situation with the bird. it helped give depth to the writing. i also liked your language. you used some strong words. my favorite part is the paragraph that begins with “a baby is thrown out with the bath water.” good job.