Birds

 Birds

What’s fake and what’s real? Who’s a pathological liar, and who’s legitimate? That’s, increasingly, our political options these days. A bird, the killdeer, builds its nest on the ground.

When danger approaches, it cries loudly, feigning injury, to distract from its vulnerable nest.

The birds in government lately attempt the same thing, tweeting and twittering of the injustices,

they say, are heaped on them to distract from their own vulnerabilities. Come on. Be real. You’re a higher life form than a bird. Or are you?