Dew Drop In April 2024.2025 Poems

Day 29 The Birds

April 29—Birds

The attack of the Birds

One day
Back in 2005
When I was living
In Suburban Virgina.

I felt I was living
In an episode of the famous movie
The “Birds.”

A band of outlaw starlings
Decided to live
On my roof,
And on a door frame
Spending all day there.

Flying back and forth
And making a huge mess
On my front door step.

We tried the fake owl
We bought at Walmart
They quickly learned
To ignore it.

We put beanie babies
Up on ledge over the door
That scared them
For a day.

We came home
The birds had totally
Destroyed the beanie babies
And they were looking at me.

Grinning as if to say,

“That’s the best you can do, human?
You don’t scare us what with your fake owl
And your fake beanie babies. !”

Our contractor sealed off the ledge
And destroyed their nest on the roof
And the birds reluctantly flew
Off down the street.

But I still saw them
Flying about
Grinning and laughing
At me.