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Nostalgia by Prolifik

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Swirling, Swirling, Swirling, mimicking the liquid I so recently poured down my oesophagus I let myself fall to the floor..... I Stare at the stars in the sky before I begin to cry ... thinking of the days when I went to bars for the whores Now I avoid bars because of them ...

Lady Goulds by Donal Mahoney

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  Image -  http://www.debsbirds. com/ Moving from Chicago to Missouri wasn't easy but breeding Lady Goulds kept me sane for many years--well, almost. I was writing then to make a living. All day I'd rearrange other people's words.    I needed Lady Goulds to look at  in the evening and most weekends. Otherwise I might have married  some nice lady for the wrong reason.   Right now, a canary helps me dance  away the years or days or hours I have to face before  I take on a cane or walker.  The canary calls the dawn with glee.  Lady Goulds, you see, don't sing.  They don't have to. All they have to do is sit there   as if Mondrian painted them  or God lifted a pinkie on the 7th day.  The beauty of the Lady Gould, some say, is the result of evolution.  There was no grand designer, most scien...