Silky pigeons, bred to haveflawed feathers, cannot fly.
Beautiful, but bred to perch
close to the earth where
ornithologists and other owners
can enjoy them, selfish prigs.
No asked the pigeons first,
presumably, before they doomed
them to this altered way of life.
To take a bird and breed
the need to own the air
out of its genes completely
strikes me, if you want to know
the truth, as quite absurd.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014
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