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Hi Bill snaps are usually sent on Wednesdays -we build up into a heat of excitement -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton Sent: 27 May 2012 10:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: School 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 morming 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.