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CITY PIGEONS



Arthur Gottlieb



Crazed by the smell

Of stale bread

Folded in a brown

Paper bag, they

Swoop down before I

Can even unwrap

The rest of the loaf.



Six of the biggest

Snatch at the sack,

While the weak

Haggle over fallen

��crumbs.



A lone sparrow,

Fumbling at the edge

Of the skirmish,

Sneaks in to swipe

��a bite.



Fierce fluster of

Feathers wheel

As one, savagely

Pecking off the intruder.



No promise of peace

Or olive branch

In the park among

Uncharitable beaks,

Hawking hungers

Disguised as doves.




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