A STRANGE BIRD

I'VE LEARNED FROM THE BIRDS
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In my bird-feeder-grain-cylinder,
    hanging here just outside
my "writing window..."
    I saw a "strange bird"
yesterday.

He was a relatively small sparrow-
    finch-wren-type bird...
non-descript,, but really obnoxious!
    He sat atop the grain cylinder
feeder (meant for all birds)
    as if he owned it... like it was
his alone.

Peck! Peck! Peck! and with an awful
    showy, threatening flutter 
of wings he started little
    fights with every other bird
that came to eat;
    Peck! Peck! Peck! What a vicious 
little yellow beak he had!

O how I felt sorry for the little
    run-of-the-mill birds, who
were hungry, and just wanting
    their piece of the pie...
so to speak...

So this mean-selfish-bully-bird fought
    their every effort; I could 
see them peeping, and I being 
    a "peep reader" heard them 
saying; "CAN'T WE JUST 
    GETALONG?"

What makes a bird, ostensibly
    no different from any of
the other birds---get such an
    egotistical, selfish concept
of himself?

So that he sits atop the food supply
    as if he owns it and the world.
He is the head of it...the
    "CHAIRMAN."

Why? That is the question.

Ah, but the world is full of 
    PEOPLE like that...
We've all known 'em. They're
    folks born without 
perception and humility.

We often call them;
    "STRANGE BIRDS."

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BY MIL
09/25/14