I love the surprise ending, Andrew. The poem is
masterful and delightful (if those two qualities can
exist in the same critical comment). Well, why not?
Candice
"I'm holding out for that teenage feeling"
(Neko Case)
--- andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the roadside stalls
>
> up the Big Lake hill road
>
> the plastic birds* tweet-tweet*
>
> *tweet-mechanical-tweet *
>
> sounds so annoying until,
>
> at the foot of the hill
>
> on the homeward journey,
>
> the tune changes
>
> and a feathered bird
>
> in a mountainside pine
>
> complains bitterly of
>
> *stolen copyright! stolen copyright!*
>
>
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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