< the birds >

[ellajam]

there´s something you wish to say. but i don´t find the key because i don´t know if "their" refers to "muslims, christians and jews" or to "the birds".

If I structure it as a sentence with a few punctuation marks, then the "their" there can be seen to refer to them and not them:

The birds are not muslims, not christians, not jews; their gods, unlike the others, can be heard.

Of course, this masks the second and third metaphors and damps the cognitive dissonance to an unacceptably low level (IMHO)*.




*Just messing with you.

I'm enjoying this one, hard to doubt the purity of birdsongs and their variety is pretty awe-inspiring,
I may not understand what they're saying but I hear them loud and clear.

    I don't understand what any of them are saying. So, if given the choice, I'll take the bright-colored ones that
    sing over the ones that come to my door selling various mutually-exclusive salvations.

amen