Canaries
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*An old man sits
Dry as a mothmotionless
except
for the small clean fast blinking of
his eyes
Sending Morse codedot dot dot dash dash dot
A record plays
it plays bird songs
Canaries, Lovebirds and Starlings.
“Grandpa, why do you have records of birds?”
“To get lonely birds to sing.”
Round and round the room
Bird song 33 Rpm’s on an
LP
LP= Long play 32 minutes repeat
Auto-Matic-Ally
Birds die while
Records go round and round and round
The old man sitsmotionless
except
for one clean perfect flash of yellow
in the white moth like flutter of his eyes.
