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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448676" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robin Suicide</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A robin committed suicide today<br>dead against my living room window pane; <br>flying fast in chilly mid-November; <br>perhaps heading south.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sound; wings blurred; a thump! <br>he went straight to ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He should have missed the house, <br>it's large, the window is below the roof, <br>he was not flying blind <br>or forgot to look.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a jet with no flaps down, <br>he hit the window full-throttle; <br>smashing pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I got up took a look<br>expecting him to fly or stir<br>but he didn't move below; lay quiet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went down to see.<br>Robin, older, neck awry<br>didn't stir, didn't move.<br>no silent cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neck broken.<br>Instant Death.<br>Instant Oblivion, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked for mourners.<br>There were none.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This Robin was solo in Death as we all are; <br>on his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It didn't seem fitting<br>to conduct a garbage-can burial, <br>I said a few words, cursed, <br>and decided to bury him in dirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Picked him up by his tail plumage<br>took him to the back yard; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">dug a shallow grave, mumbled something; <br>lay him down in there; <br>patted the top of his dirt pyre<br>my good deed done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dead robin in my yard, <br>by my window undone.<br>But, I was thinking was he really a deliberate suicide? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There were clues.<br>How can a Robin miss<br>a big house, <br>there must be more hints<br>to this dead Robin mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Perhaps he was an old Robin, diseased, <br>disoriented by Alzheimer's, or a bird pandemic; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">could have been a bird fight <br>he fled, <br>The Crows around here are criminals and rough; <br>the Robin could have been bested in a West Side Story Bird Fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rose to look for myself; <br>to look for clues to Robins' death, <br>not content for the time being<br>to dismiss it lightly<br>as dumb bird lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So... from Robin's height my window pane looks straight<br>on through the house, out through the back windows and<br>out into the trees in my backyard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah ha; Robin's keen eyes<br>could have been looking at<br>my backyard trees, <br>flying straight and hard, not seeing<br>the window pane. Blam and there you are-<br>an explanation which made some sense<br>Robin in seeing his destination could not see what was right before him; <br>Death with painful irony.<br> <br>His grave lay beneath those trees<br>he was so intent<br>to reach.<br>Dead Robin flying fast, <br>gaze fixed upon his own death.<br>How Shakespearean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think final destinations, <br>as in where we will die: <br>inside hospitals, on the road, <br>in a plane for most of us<br>is unknown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My robin could see his own demise; <br>the means to him were clear and unclear; <br>my window, both opaque<br>and transparent<br>was right there before him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, again how Shakespearean.<br>A Robin causality; <br> <br>wonder if he had kids.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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dead against my living room window pane; 
flying fast in chilly mid-November; 
perhaps heading south.

The sound; wings blurred; a thump! 
he went straight to ground.

He should have missed the house, 
it's large, t..."></div>
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