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Birds, My Thoughts

Amazing these creatures. They keep coming back to build a nest on my porch. I say no, but they do not listen. Without asking , they build anyway. So I knock it down again and again and again. Birds are psychotic I say, but just maybe it's me I quite enjoy the battle. After a time I ask why. Why do they keep coming back. Then it dawns and I see no leaves in the trees. Oh I think. They are not psychotic at all. They are so smart. My porch shelters them from the weather, which I say in a psychotic way. Maybe im insane instead. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different end to the story. Now wait a minute! So do they.

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Date: 7/24/2021 5:46:00 PM
Ray, how so very true-we’re all insane to some degree, so why not the birds. perhaps they know they have a symbiotic relationship with you after all. I love the conclusion you both reached at the end. Thank you for sharing, and make this poet see things a little differently too.
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Date: 4/29/2020 9:37:00 AM
Hello Ray Zottole, the birds are smart they will build their nest anywhere they can. Like signs on a building.Now that is clever. Enjoy your day my fiend. Be safe.
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Date: 4/27/2020 7:53:00 AM
Lol! Keen observation... I would feel blessed by the nest. I've kept finches, I have seen first hand 'psychotic'; two males fighting, my bud says leave em, they'll sort it out... Nope, I assured him they'd fight till the death. Enjoyed, xomo
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