The Mockingbird's Repertoire

from Alien from an Alternate Earth by E.G. Phillips

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Somewhere after midnight, before the break of day 
Carol’s pried from her slumber and forced wide awake
 She curses the curtains for failing to mute
What she assumes is a car alarm 
Only to discover it’s the latest addition
 To the mockingbird’s repertoire  O

n her way to the kitchen to make herself coffee 
She passes a cage she regards as if empty
 The silver home of a golden canary
 Who’s long been left so loved starved
 All because his song was once added
 To the mockingbird’s repertoire  

Not nearly as malicious a mimic  
As his cruel cousin the cuckoo
 (Who clearly deserves to be imprisoned in a clock)

 This magpie of mating calls 
Must be in it for the mischief
 Why else would the mockingbird mock?

  Weary and walking through fields of sweet clover 
Carol’s perturbed by a well known warble
 She picks up a stone and nearly hurls it
 When out springs a meadow lark
 Whose crime was he couldn’t be distinguished 
From the mockingbird’s repertoire  

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from Alien from an Alternate Earth, released April 22, 2022

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E.G. Phillips San Francisco, California

E.G. Phillips is a San Francisco based songwriter who creates lyric driven songs with his own special blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery which he uses to give a wry take on dealing with the longings of the heart and the madness of existence.

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