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This morning I saw a blackbird. It wasn't a raven or a crow. Technically, the species "blackbird" is a European critter related to a robin and we don't have any around here. But any black bird may be called such, so I stared, fascinated, at my blackbird; a pigeon!
For some time he was alone, commanding the parking lot, seemingly unafraid of mere mechanicals. Then his lesser brethren joined him, all the shades of ash and soot, pale bespeckled things they were next to him; and he knew it.
An underweight crow would have kicked his ass. But here and now, among his more motley fellows, he was the leather jacket clad, engineer boot shod, tough guy of the asphalt. And he knew it.
Yeah, I'm easily amused. I also now keep thinking of Wallace Stevens. You'll find reams written on his "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as universal allegory. I was never that taken by the poem. I somehow doubt he was thinking of a pigeon.
For some time he was alone, commanding the parking lot, seemingly unafraid of mere mechanicals. Then his lesser brethren joined him, all the shades of ash and soot, pale bespeckled things they were next to him; and he knew it.
An underweight crow would have kicked his ass. But here and now, among his more motley fellows, he was the leather jacket clad, engineer boot shod, tough guy of the asphalt. And he knew it.
Yeah, I'm easily amused. I also now keep thinking of Wallace Stevens. You'll find reams written on his "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as universal allegory. I was never that taken by the poem. I somehow doubt he was thinking of a pigeon.
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...into the light of a dark black night
Have you read "The Story of a White Blackbird"? Strange little story.
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I think I'm reasonably good at quirky observations. I only share a fraction of them; many would actually take too long to explain and loose juice by the end of the telling. Unfortunately, such things don't really lend themselves to a particularly long form.
I'm debating with myself whether or not to attempt NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) this year. Still on the fence.
Thanks for the story, it looks amusing.