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Late at night
The wail of
Fire engines
Comes to you
Overlapped
In slow motion
Like the screams
Of successive
Animal species.
Conditioning for the pigeon
Became a scourging religion;
After a treat when first it tried,
It pecked a bar until it died.
The bird that can’t fly
Had better run fast;
Thus did the ostrich
The dodo outlast.
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