TSL's Pandorathon May 8th Prompt Conversation between a Crow and a Parakeet

 TSL's Pandorathon May 8th Given by Santosh Bakaya - a conversation between a crow and a parakeet.

Crow: I am humble kin to Raven

eulogized by God and E A Poe and Ted Hughes and the Native American Indian

Parakeet: I am a member of the parrot family

They put me in cages, in groups, some of us

The humans

They are fascinated I can imitate their speech.

Crow: In India, they make much of me

I even appeared in children's stories

Parakeet: We exist beyond all this

They may go but we remain

Crow: Yes, but doesn't it irk you

to be bred and kept behind bars for ages?

They do not think me, fortunately,

So important, thank the Great Crow in the Sky for his mercies

Parakeet: The Great Parakeet in the Sky is probably not so powerful

As the Great Crow in the Sky, I guess.

In their story in Greece and India you are intelligent though ugly

Some believe you to be their ancestor

I have no famous tales on me

Yet somehow caught their attention

As I, unfortunately, can mimic their chatter

So meaningful to them and meaning nothing to me

Their Praise God and fuck you mean the same thing to me.

Although when I repeat it they wonder if I know that!

Hehehe, "what fools these mortals be"

Something I picked up from them from a chap called Shakespeare

Crow: We are all mortal

Parakeet: But they hanker for immortality

Crow: A strange concept

Parakeet: Let us stop discussing their ways and means

Foolish tyrants

Let me sing and you caw to a beat.