I plunged into an unknown area of reality, a "burning bush" experience. I turned aside...
I was walking home from a time of study and was feeling my feet hit the ground. I was tired and it was beautiful that day. My thoughts turned melancholy and reflective. I was thinking philosophically with long slow big words. It is important to be observant. I heard a strange sound that I took to be a bird coming from a treetop in someone's yard. It was not only strange, but strange enough that I turned aside. I thought, "I'll delve into the nearness and realness of things by finding and observing in an Emerson/Thoreau kind of way this sound-maker." It sounded like the caw of a big nasty bird; raspy, high pitched and intermittent.
It was a squirrel and it was screaming.
I didn't believe it at first. I SAW the squirrel barking/crying...screaming. I didn't ever know squirrels could do that. Have you ever heard a squirrel scream?
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Squirrels scream and natter at passersby. They also feel threatened, often, by cats, at which they also natter and caw.
This is the name of my new album: Natter and Caw.
You're using the Vertical Chew mask, and you probably don't even know it.
Because you never come visit me.
I have never heard a squirrel scream, but the other day one of them told me that he was going to open up a can of whoop a$& if I did not drop the nut I had just picked up for consumption. Fickle little creatures!
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