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Plucking the Poisonous Parrot

Antonia had been a happy go lucky flamingo until her wings cracked

Now cascades of monotonous voices extracted venomous bickering

The parrot she took on as a charity case to quell her sadness now pecked 

And would not shut up until the cage engulfed both vicious black souls


In her black box of contempt and too tired to shine life plucked away

Her coat tarred and feathered hanging from a thread of Munch’s scream

She attempted to touch away the poisonous croaking until she hung

Upside down from the swing with her head drowning in char coaled paint



Which oozed into her every pore morose and devoid of harmony’s rainbow

She became so void that all chakras burned in toxic cantankerous fire

Beatings of her life parroted a cacophonous mind pierced and exploding

Until everything shattered even her deafening malignant resentment



When the clock struck midnight and there was nothing more to vanish

But her Self and the stained melancholy sheet of dysphonic dysphoria

She remembered Oscar of the novel The Tin Drum shouting so loudly

That her crystal dysmorphic mirror imploded and bars bent under the strain


With her last resolve she plucked the parrot and An-Tonia was free

Colours shone brightly once again and the voices were good

She buried the bird under an olive tree with a song of epitaph’s prayer

And kept one single feather to remind her just in case it was not yet dead



20th January 2019

Contest entered: Free style poetry contest sponsored by Emily Pinet

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