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Defiance

by @LewisHyden

Do you know, the exact design Of spikes and wires atop street-signs And the sort, are to stop Pigeons shitting on the top? And yet, just the other day, A mother pigeon - as if to say "Fuck you!" to the local street - Had made her nest up, nice and neat, Above the very spikes they laid To stop the nest from being made. And as I passed, I thought aloud, "'At-a-girl! She should be proud!"
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18 / M / London, UK
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LewisHyden
18 / M / London, UK
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Nov 23, 2018
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A poem about anarchy.

#17 in the Distant Dystopia anthology.

© Lewis Hyden, 2018

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#pigeon#anarchy#defiance#commercialism#cruelty
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