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Dingy- dirty colour
Malevolent-
Parrot
Stevie Smith
Parrot
The old sick green parrot
High in a dingy cage
Sick with malevolent rage
Beadily glutted his furious eye
On the old dark
Chimneys of Noel Park
Far from his jungle green
Over the seas he came
To the yellow skies, to the dripping rain,
To the night of his despair
And the pavement of his street
Are shining beneath the lamp
With a beauty that's not for one
Born under a tropic sun
He has croup. His feathered chest
Know no minute of rest
High on his perch he sits
And coughs and spits,
Waiting for death to come.
Pray heaven it won't be long.
Stevie Smith
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