the trees and the birds

this isolation isn't affecting me at all.

I have to say, this isolation doesn't appear to be affecting me at all.

I was thinking... The wind must come from somewhere.

Do the trees make the wind with their ceaseless moving around? 

“KKKeeeeepp STILL!!” I shriek at the trees from my bedroom window but the trees pretend not to hear. Science says trees can talk to each other over some secret, underground, filament-like network - so I know the ba$tards are listening.

And I don’t know about this new generation of birds - these tearless, happy birds that just chirp to be fashionable. 

They annoy me and they pretend to be unaware of the value of silence.

“Shut UP!” I yell at a speckled bird who stares down at me like I’m insignificant. 

“Yeah”, I say, “ the woolly mammoths ignored us too,” I warn. 

I give it the two-fingered, back and forth “Yeah, I’m watching you” point.

Then it just chirps right at me. aaarrrgghhh!

So I give it the bird.

Author's Note

all comments welcome

Reviews

[Beccy]

I do like this. Wry and dry humor, (my favourite kind,) with just the perfect touch of acid; and yes, the birds are becoming bolder by the day; perhaps they think it'll soon be all over for us. :))

Beccy.

[Devansh Shekhar Shukla]

Are you in self isolation or something else? Well, your poem is really funny. It created the actual scene in my mind!

[anais.vionet]

Yes, isolation, there's a pandemic... in the news??

[Devansh Shekhar Shukla]

No I didn't mean that. I meant what kind of isolation. In India, I stay at my home, that's another thing and some are being isolated by the government in isolation wards.

[anais.vionet]

Oh, I'm home with my parents and my brother. The only reason I go out to is for walks or to play frisbee golf (with my brother, if no one else is there). I hope you and your family are well.

[Devansh Shekhar Shukla]

We too are well. I rarely go out, no, it has been for just for one time since Holi. Well frisbee golf is really exciting game to play with family and friends :)

[anais.vionet]

Frisbee golf is outside - it's so beautiful sometimes I forget the WORLD is in trouble.
Good to hear you're all ok =]