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I am woken by a sparrow’s loud voice outside my window. Enraged, I say, “Who are you to speak to me? You came out of an egg.”
2.
I too came out of an egg.
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Who, then, am I?
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A flightless bird.
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Cast out of glass.
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A plastic sack.
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A shibboleth of wheat.
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An unpronounceable name.
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That is easily forgotten.
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More so than the name of a sparrow.
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Who learns the name of a sparrow?
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What is a sparrow.
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A ball of flesh the size of an egg (but warmer, louder.)