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Issue 41/42 : July - December, 2008 : Volume 11 No 1/2 JD Rage Pet Birds The grey bird sits in his doorway watching me he seems content he does not pick his beautiful feathers out he holds long excited conversations with himself when his yellow eagle eye spies something I'm eating that he wants, he says "mommy" and expects me to bring it to him he does not live in Africa he does not live in the wild though he is a NYC condo bird his wild world is disappearing by the minute If he had grown up in the jungle he'd be dead by now he's 15 years old, long past his wilderness life expectancy or maybe he would have been captured, perhaps to ride to a foreign country (like the USA) inside the tire of a car, perhaps dying of pressure, suffocation, massive dizziness, and/or mental terror The other bird a small green one with red and golden head at 13 has just turned teenybopper he has his own telephone he destroyed one and when the new phone arrived tried to eat it too so I gave him the old one for his own after all teenagers do need phones and I saved the new one from vicious annihilation he used to perch on the antenna but that has since been bitten off now he just sweetly cuddles the receiver this bird gives new meaning to the word torture as he traverses my tender skin with his stiletto claws pulls out my hair strand by strand and drops birdie poop down my back |