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Mar 2018
Just plain ***** are the boisterous birds;
All day and all night singing the blues,
The fly me to the moon serenades,
Like Verdi Romeos by the balcony
And Juliets with romantic eyes

O baybah baybah baybah,
My mistress mine, my coy sir,
Embrace me with thy soft feathers
And puteth claws on my shoulder.
O feel my smooth beak sing
Praises on your wings
As we copulate on a cloud,
And take what the rainbow brings.

Perverted pigeons, seductive doves,
All you oversexed dinosaurs,
Is there nothing but that nasty thing?
Could you ever learn to sing of love?

Ah, Love, love...do birds really love?
I dare not assume to know.  
Yet I hear such longing in their songs
Like troubadours or rock and rollers
Chirping in the mating season.
Inspired by this text:
“Happy but sad I sing of love,
  joyful from woe, weaving my song:
  through longing alone can one hear.”
  Wagner, The Wood Bird, sung to Siegfried, act II
In the opera.  Siegfried slays the dragon and tastes some of its blood. In doing so he is able to understand the language of birds.
Written by
mark fishbein  68/M/DC
(68/M/DC)   
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     --- and I'm BINO
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