Intelligence

[Magpie]

Intelligence

Better to be cuckoo
sitting on the wire 
introducing spring.

Crow knows
when the chicken
has laid an egg.

Better not to be a bird, necessarily. The thin/thick line and spring is a new


Crow knows , as the knowing is the crow isn't great to know the new born, cuz the crow is raven and death


-- it blows his world apart


Is that what you were going at? 

Yeah. You've give me a bit more to think about there Rowens. 
I'm wondering now if 'raven' is a better symbol and I'm still thinking on that first stanza, not so sure about the sentiment of 'better to be the cuckoo'... you're right about better not to be a bird.