Atribution: Photo by Dulcey Lima on Unsplash
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the Keeper and Phyllis were welcomed to the day by the strident demands of a hummingbird checking out the balcony geranium and the empty hummingbird feeder and then banging on the glass door and shouting a profane laced lecture about cross-species responsibility and basic compassion and being a good neighbor.
Without giving the keeper and Phyllis an opportunity to point out that there had been no prior hummingbird visits all spring and summer, the hummingbird threatened to tip over the birdbath and then flew off with a final Bronx cheer and middle finger salute which it executed with its left wing.
The keeper and Phyllis hastened to put the hummingbird feeder back into full service and made plans to turn themselves in to ICE for having violated the MEGA creed of exaggerating everything to absurdity and never telling the truth.
In the meantime, the keeper will call for estimates to repair the extensive damage done to the balcony by the hummingbird and he will read up on Republican techniques for attracting passenger pigeons and dodo birds.
