A Pidgeon from Nowhere

Dominique CyprèsCheerful

saw a pidgeon from nowhere fly up the down escalator and thought that’s too conveniently poetic qualify that

saw paths demarcated by footfalls intersect underground over and over in a fluid mass that’s too operatic qualify that

you said our stop is coming soon well that’s optimistic please quantify that

Dominique Cyprès

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Cheerful
Topics:: pigeon, underground, escalator, footfall, optimism

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The speaker is riding public transport and noticing things, then immediately second-guessing the noticing. A pigeon flying up a down escalator is the kind of image a poet would love, and the speaker catches themselves: it's "too conveniently poetic." The crowds moving through the underground get…

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