<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Panic Bird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">just flew inside my chest. Some<br>days it lights inside my brain,<br>but today it's in my bonehouse,<br>rattling ribs like a birdcage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I saw it coming, I'd fend it<br>off with machete or baseball bat.<br>Or grab its scrawny hackled neck,<br>wring it like a wet dishrag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it approaches from behind.<br>Too late I sense it at my back --<br>carrion, garbage, excrement.<br>Once inside me it preens, roosts,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">vulture on a public utility pole.<br>Next it flaps, it cries, it glares,<br>it rages, it struts, it thrusts<br>its clacking beak into my liver,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my guts, my heart, rips off strips.<br>I fill with black blood, black bile.<br>This may last minutes or days.<br>Then it lifts sickle-shaped wings,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">rises, is gone, leaving a residue --<br>foul breath, droppings, molted midnight<br>feathers. And life continues.<br>And then I'm prey to panic again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Phillips">Robert Phillips</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507849" data-title="The Panic Bird de Robert Phillips" data-description="just flew inside my chest. Some days it lights inside my brain, but today it's in my bonehouse, rattling ribs like a birdcage. If I saw it coming, I'd fend it off with machete or baseball bat. Or grab its scrawny hackled neck, wring it like a wet..."></div> </div> </div>

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