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I put down glue to ick their feet –
They collected twigs
To cover it.
I placed a swivel-headed owl –
They watched,
Then perched right on it.
I hung CDs on a dental-floss line –
The pigeons shrugged,
And pulled it.
My peristeronic battle is at impasse.
I call it truce.
I know I’m beat.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: peristeronic in 53 words
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Na'ama Yehuda 
Na’ama Y’karah,
Pigeons don’t give up easily, do they? Sammi gave us a peristeronic head scratcher this week, didn’t she? You handled it ever so well.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Mine is here: https://rochellewisoff.com/2020/08/01/weekend-writing-prompt-peristeronic/
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Ah, that is not fiction, not a word of it … After many years of battle (and repeated failure on my end), the pigeons and I have reached a sort of understanding: they do whatever they want and I accommodate them.
Them be very intelligent. I’ll hand them that.
😀
Na’ama
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I imagine you have quite a few in your neck of the woods. 😉
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In my neck of my window, yeah. My AC serves as flight school, tinder meet up, and macho-fight-club, among other things. It is also, a coveted spot for 4am “cooing 101” lessons. 😉
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Like the humour
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It’s the only way I can manage them pigeons … They do what they want and I just have to accept it … 😉
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That’s pigeons for you
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yep!
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The vegetable gardeners lament. 😂
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I bet! 🙂 LOL!
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I’m currently at war with pigeons, wreched seagulls too! I’m losing the battle. Help!
My fifty-three!
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I’ve little advice other than to wave the white flag, swallow your pride, and accept defeat … 😉
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Good one, Na’ama (of course).
Our mocking birds (and pigeons we call white-wing doves) were persuaded by the spiked obstacles I placed on my mail box to dissuade their droppings.
But occasionally they land there, just to mock me. It’s what they do. 🙂
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We’re not allowed to put metal spikes, and the plastic spikes aren’t secure enough, and …. they pooped right over them and into them so I could not possibly clean it up. Yep mocking. 😉
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Mine are plastic. When I was applying them, some (not all) neighbors came out and asked me to do theirs. I did. The birds prefer the un-spiked boxes. 🙂 No one has complained.
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Ah, but you should hear the litany by the pigeons here, to lament the situation and resort to poop-target-practice … 😉
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I sometimes wonder if the mocking birds don’t do some dove songs. 🙂
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Ha!
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Better pigeons than crows. A friend of mine has lost the battle with the crows who attack her if she tries to go on her balcony.
If your pigeons could, they’d surely give you the finger…
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Oh! Yeah, totally agree! The worst a pigeon might do is aim a poop puddle into one’s collar (didn’t happen to me, but did happen to a friend of mine and I’ve been super cordial with the pigeons throughout, to make sure they aim their poop only at my AC, not me … 😉 )..
The pigeons knew all along that they’d win, I think. They watched me go through the paces of human absurdity, and did their jigs-with-claws on my AC at night to make sure I knew it … 😉
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Buahahaha! Love it.
My dad’s friend has a loathing for pigeons. He got “bird fanciers lung” a form of pneumonia caused by the dust of pigeon poop…. can you imagine?
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Nope, but now I must … 😉
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You’ll see it now 😉
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cough cough … see what? 😉
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He he he…
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😀
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