About a Bird

 

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Barry didn't tell time like the hairies did. He didn't know when from. He knew many peoples. He knew he was from a long time. He knew most hairies were BIG WEIRD when he talked like them. He knew some songs of theirs. 

It was a couple times dark when the Girl didn't come home, and she always did. She didn't keep him in the stupid box because she knew he was too smart for DUMB CAGE STUPID VAFFANCULO NOT GO. Had it, never closed it.

DO use words to fix it? 

To what PEEPEL?  Who knows?

George know. The NotMan was smart. He made whistles like many birds. He was a thing on a phone and Barry was a goodboi and sometimes knew how THAT DON"T TOUCH BARRY thing worked. He found a phone. You could POKE. Just poke--but it also did a SAY THINGS. Girl tried to make SAY THINGS not work, but Barry was very good at SAY THINGS. 

Girl was old and had a phone Barry knew about. He pressed the George face and George answered PRONTO. 

"DO find a gurl."

"Is this Barry?"

"Barry goodboi scare do find a gurl?" 

There was a time--like a scared time. "WE scared too, Barry, I come get you we go find a gurl." 

George was a smart boi and knew how to say things. Barry waited. The not-man came and said his NAME. 

"Barry you know where to find GURL?"

He fluttered. How you tell all of that? Big feels weird talk, lots of things/toys throwing in bags. "NOT mom not but..."

George scanned for things to do with Genevieve's family. "Dad?"

"TEVE."

The first husband--scan, scan, obituary, deceased, heart attack. She might have broken her security out of respect. She never hated him. Steven...etc. Survived by--her name in a newspaper. Scan, scan--not at funeral. Lost somewhere in New Jersey. Maybe. Expected and kidnapped.

"Would you like to go for a plane ride, bird?" George asked.

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The bad man from then was in Barry's view. Her said she did not mess with a goodboi who had a can opener for a face.

He knew what was in cans. Sometimes it was pineapple, or it was pistachio! Maybe corns!  Cans were great.  This face was bad. He wanted to open it. He made gurl disappear sometimes! This was not good! 

He flew very forward, very angry. He did a bad thing.  And he and George found Gurl, and she was not okay, but she was okay. Because she was exactly like bird. They were flock. 

He didn't know what Bad Man did to her, but it was bad, and not the first time bad happened to her. But they were together again, and that was ok.