Verily, in article <i9md3lduvu5460qif0mff00jhee1kihgq8@4ax.com>, did Man@the.keyboard deliver unto us this message:

The Pigeons Have Flown Away.
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I am ever so very sad.

This morning, the many birds waited,
Nothing came.
I ran out of their food yesterday
Resolved to buy no more.

They danced on the roof of the table,
Twirling, as though viewing from a special angle
Would create the breakfast.

Then they left.

Some returned, in hope or desperation.
They found nothing.

I had promised her that I would stop.
I did.
I hope she is joyous.

The birds must think I'm mean.

And I am so very sad.

? J.

You were asked to stop feeding the birds, allegedly for their own sake,
but joy has been removed from your life. I feel that.

All Of The Birds Have Gone.
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Fluttery, cooing, warm, curious,
Heads tilted in bemusement as I feed them
They are lovely

The flash lasted no time.

Her leg and left eye were gone.

She saw
The bird table was a smoldering stump
And distant shards.
There were dead things.
Dead birds.
Oh.
Burning house.
Dead people.
Dead parents.
Her family would be dead, like the many birds.

They came to help her.

Sole survivor, they said as they tended to her wounds.

She screamed a no as they tried to take her away.
We have to bury the birds.

So, they did.
In the pain-filled Sunlight they dug small graves
Filled them with carefully wrapped small lives
To each of which she gave a tiny toy
A tinkly bell, a ball, a mirror, a little doll,
Something to take with them.

She let them take her away.
To a place with no table, no home, no birds.
No family.

Then she wept.

If these two are a sequence, then I gather the poet invited his
feathered friends to dine in the basement, and then... something
happened. It's described as "the flash." It sounds like an explosion
hit.

She wants to bury the birds, though. Even in her injured state, that's important to her. She cares about them, just differently than the poet
does.

Okay, so I know which of us has been hit harder and who has suffered
more and who should be consoled and loved and given new life. I don't
care. I am still inconsolably sad.

Both of you deserve consolation.

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