By: Shay Alexi Stewart
I've lived twenty pretty bird years
of this great pretty bird life
and I think I pretty pretty pretty bird bird pretty much know what I'm talking about
people like to poke fun at my pretty bird pretty preening
at my pretty bird pretty feathers
but look at my long clean coat
at my pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
when pigeon men track me across sky highway
they are happy to trace their hungry orange eyes
between my pretty pretty bird bird feathers
to busy fantasizing pretty bird
wet dreams swollen chest fluff fest
to pretty poke bird fun
to pretty poke fun bird
to pretty bird bird pretty bird bird pretty bird bird pretty pretty pretty
to busy fantasizing
to poke fun at permanently preening pretty bird
my vanity is insanity unless it helps get you off
what a treat hosting eyes between my thighs
they will spend equal time begging to share bed with me
condemning mediocrity
how does one achieve complexity when all she was ever taught to be was basic
pigeon man wants pretty bird to pretty bird
until pretty bird fulfills ideas of prettiness
then she's too pretty pretty bird bird paralyzing and preened
look at my long clean coat
at my pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
track me across sky highway
take a picture I beg you
take a picture pretty bird pretty bird
my left side is my best side
I have a best side
I have a better half
I am a half
pretty 'cause they want a pretty bird bird
I grew upon a diet of bread crumbs, catalog clippings and sidewalk cracks
how do you expect anything else
pretty sure I know what I'm talking about
pretty sure
pretty sure
maybe not
sorry sorry sorry sorry
can I ask a question
sorry sorry
may I may I
pretty bird used to sing
baby bird used to sing
baby bird was pretty bird before pretty bird learned to pretty
and baby bird could compose whole symphonies
acute intricacies melodies capturing vast seas of poetry
but the reviews came in
and they preferred apology
so she shrank
learned to make herself small enough
to nearly fit back in her eggshell
to tiptoe atop eggshells
expanded flight just long enough
for pigeon man to track her across sky highway
but still she sang too loud
so they caged her up
for her pretty pretty bird bird long clean coat
for her pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
and they said sing pretty lady sing
but I forgot how
so I said
pretty pretty bird look at my long clean coat
at my pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
but they were bored of me.
Bogotá
Diciembre 23, 2021
10:56 am
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