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Sent: 27 May 2012 11:48
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Subject: Re: Whoops, that's mor n ing

"harangue the air" - that's magpies for you.

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R

On 27/05/2012 11:21, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> Subject: Education snap
>>
>> You're rubbing shoulders,
>> sings Brian Ferry, for My pleasure
>>
>> thanks to a free-ranging I-pod
>> as I pull into Reservoir High's empty car park.
>>
>> Twa magpies conspire on asphalt.
>> One actively beaks a discarded chip packet
>>
>> seeking morsels while the other waits.
>> The seeker seems to see that inversion is required
>>
>> But it is beyond him.
>> Ferry flicked, I emerge
>>
>> just in time to hear a celebratory morning warble issue spontaneously 
>> from the beaks of both birds.
>>
>> Their interweaving trills harangue the air and bounce off the 
>> gymnasium walls.
>>
>> I walk toward them. They skitter away.
>> Upending the packet completely causes
>>
>> the last remaining skerricks to plop, the packet bounces off in a 
>> sudden wind.
>>
>> The magpies soar off over the oval
>> I turn to teach.
>>
>>
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