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PIGEONS

Pigeons

They hover like smog

as you approach.

Smiling hopefully,

like the lovelorn,

their tokens loaded.

Their lunches are not free.

Unfed daily they multiply

like pigeons after bread,

positive leaves echoing

around this precinct

like holiday promises.

But good intentions

do not hold off rain.

Tony Noon