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This poem here, it's
called "Redbird Love."

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And where we live,
there's a lot of birds.

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And so when it's Spring,
just like human beings,

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the world goes kind of nuts
with all these love rituals.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So we were watching the turkeys.

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There's some turkeys
that live there.

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And one day, we were trying
to get-- go down the hill.

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We live up on a hill.

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And we couldn't.

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We had to-- we were stopped by
these two male turkeys facing

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off over this girl.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They were fighting in
the middle of the road.

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And she was over, very demurely
standing there, egging them on,

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[LAUGH] so to speak.

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[LAUGH] Anyway, we
watched this one redbird.

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We watched her come up
from a little chick.

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She was so beautiful.

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She really had
something special.

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And we watched her
grow up and then come

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into her young birdhood [LAUGH]
and watched this whole romance

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take place.

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And when I got to
the end of the poem,

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I realized it was a
love song for my--

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for Owen, who-- he's my heart.

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"Redbird Love."

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"We watched her grow up.

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She was the urgent
chirper, fledgling flier.

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And when Spring
rolled out its green,

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she'd grown into the most
noticeable bird-girl,

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long-legged and just the
right amount of blush

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tipping her wings,
crest, and tail.

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And she knew it in
the bird parade.

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We watched her strut.

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She owned her stuff.

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The males perked their
armor, greased their wings,

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and flew sky-loop missions
to show off for her.

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In the end, there was only one.

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There's that one you
circle back to for home.

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This morning, the young couple
scavenge seeds on the patio.

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She is thickening with eggs.

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Their minds are busy with
sticks the perfect size,

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tufts of fluff like dandelion,
and other pieces of soft.

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He steps aside for
her so she can eat.

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Then we watch him fill his
beak, walk tenderly to her,

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and kiss her with seed.

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The sacred world
lifts up its head

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to notice we are
double, triple blessed."

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