Damn raving Japanese alcoholics

[Taro Toporific]

You can't believe the noise of the raving Japanese alcoholics outside my kitchen window this morning. At 6:30am they were just a squeaking, chittering, mass of brown. A couple drunks were laying stunned or seemingly dead beneath the bushes.

And all of them had spewed over my car parked below in the lower level carport.

Damn those cedar waxwing's fondness for fermented berries--they're real "party birds". Under the right conditions, berries can ferment on the bush. Then the crazy alcoholic waxwings eat enough of these wild berry cocktails till they get drunk and pass out from alcohol poisoning. Those waxwings that weren't already passed out drunk on the ground were sitting huddled close together a branch and hitting a low reedy whistle at each other. One bird would pluck a fermented berry, pass it from beak to beak down the line and back until for reasons unknown, a bird will end the game and eat the berry. Sheesh.

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a subtle sound
among the caws of crows
cedar waxwing

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[Steve Bildermann]

Waxwing oenkai keeps an eye on Taro's kitchen window

[Taro Toporific]

Waxwing oenkai keeps an eye on Taro's kitchen window

YIKES! My kitchen greenhouse window has no drapes. I better "wax and loofa" as GomiGirl recommends.

[GomiGirl]

YIKES! My kitchen greenhouse window has no drapes. I better "wax and loofa" as GomiGirl recommends.

There is never an excuse for poor grooming!!

Takes but a minute in the shower everyday to maintain a smooth shiney hiney...

A pumice stone over the feet every now and then wouldn't go astray either..

p.s. cut down the tree that the birds are in!!

[GomiGirl]

a subtle sound
among the caws of crows
cedar waxwing

Just saw this little haiku-esque gem.. dang you are hilarious Taro!!

However, isn't haiku 5,7,5?

[Taro Toporific]

a subtle sound
among the caws of crows
cedar waxwing

However, isn't haiku 5,7,5?

It's just some silly haibun---the short riffs that tie haiku together as a thematic whole. I just figured I better honor the national bird, the garbage crow, in some way.

Damned if I can remember whether I memorized a haiku, haibun or fragmentary senryu. Sad to say I just dredged it out from the decades deep pile of my brain guano.