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Taller Tales

"Clapper Rail, Condor, 

Loggerhead Shrike and a lost,  

Whooping Crane, rarer..."

"Stop!" "Did you make the chess team?"

"No, because I am too short."
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Krutsinger Avatar
May 20, 2019 at 1:41 AM
This is HILARIOUS! So funny! I have to listen to this one again for sure!
Kelii Kekaula Avatar
May 20, 2019 at 2:25 AM
Hehe, it started out to be just a haiku of rare birds, but then added the conversational part, thus creating a funny bit of a tanka instead, Aloha wk.
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