Challenge
Select an animal noise and defend its importance to humanity. Form is irrelevant.
Emotional Connection
Cockatoo, cockatoo, I hear you whistling to me
catcalls from next door when you hear my tread
talk to me, talk to me, I need some response
I can almost see you stamping your feet.
I’m deeply involved with you, substitute male
feel an emotional connection to you when I answer
no demands from you but insist I retort promptly
when I’m alone in my kitchen fixing dinner.
You make a really good companion as you play
different tunes to which I respond in melody echo.
If you ever become silent, I’ll be so forlorn
without you, little cockatoo, to keep me in line.
And if a friend wonders why I whistle all day
I’ll tell her I am signaling my very special male.
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