hello folks, the strangest thing happened this morning. there i was, sitting at home, minding my own business, and trying to listen to the new album by belle and sebastian, when all of a sudden there's this loud tapping at the window. gave me a right shock i can tell you. for whatever reason some damn fool had sent a bloody parrot to annoy me. so anyway, i'm more of a fan of waterfowl than exotic birds, and naturally chose to ignore the blighter, turning up the record player in the hope of drowning out the tapping and squawking and flapping about. but its a persistent bugger, bloody hours it was there for, and those cats from next door were sitting patiently below waiting for it to get knackered. well, i'm not going to spend my afternoon cleaning up after the cats, so i had to open the window and let the bloody thing in, didn't i? so here's what happened next... i gave it some water and it asked for a cracker and i told it to bloody well piss off and leave me the hell alone, but it says: "oh no kevan, i am the poetry parrot and i cannot leave until you have posted a poem to the sinister mailing list." "bollocks to that, " i replied, "i bloody hate poetry." "tough," says the bird, "cos i'm not going anywhere until you do." well its already shat all over the carpet and clawed a hole in the curtains, and i just want shot of the bloody thing, so here's a poem. These days come before spring: the meadow rests under thick snow, the dry trees rustle gaily, the warm wind soft and resilient. The body marvels at its lightness, you do not recognise your house, and the song that annoyed you before, enraptured, you sing as new. Anna Akhmatova 1915 well, that seems to have satisfied the parrot, it just flew off again squawking something about how jess has been calling for it. bye, kevan wet fun... http://www.splishsplosh.co.uk/ *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. http://www.chickshops.com boutique shopping from chickclick.com *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+