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Bouncy poem for a bouncy bird, with lovely cascading rhymes. The form complements the subject so well that the poem itself could be the beat that Max is dancing to, even as it describes its own effect. 'The drumbeat starts' just as the first line starts – it has the same meta flavour as the 'I've got a theory' song from <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>, where the characters wonder, through the medium of song, why they are cursed to express themselves through the medium of song:\n\n<i>I've got a theory\nSome kid is dreamin'\nAnd we're all stuck inside\nHis wacky Broadway nightmare</i>\n\nMax the sulphur-crested cockatoo doesn't have any theories – he's just happy to keep dancing. The personification of the bird leans toward the cartoonish, but at the same time he's lightly Frankensteined from tangible materials – charcoal for the beak, vanilla for the shoulders, and so on. It's an honest characterisation of the human-animal relationship, wherein we understand a creature like Max as both alien and familial, connected to us by something as primal as rhythm, but nevertheless a 'delegate', a 'demon', something beyond our comprehension.\n\n<span class="brightlink">[[Return to poem|previous()]]</span>\n<a class="set2" data-passage="Start">Return to front page</a>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Vollkorn">\s\n<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito"><div style="display: inline-block; width: 80%; height: 115px; line-height: 17px;">\s\n<span class="fade"><a href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com" target="_top"><img src="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/sidekicklogocolour.png" width="100px" align="left"></a></span>\s\n<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">the</span> sidekick<br/><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">PLAY-POEM</span><br/><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">A R C H I V E</span></span></div>
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<span style="color:#ff0066;">SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOO</span>\n<span style="font-size: 0.8em;">by Kirsten Irving</span>\n\nClick the pink circle to advance. Use backspace to retread.\n<a data-passage="1"><div id="circle"></div></a>\n<span style="font-size: 0.9em;">\nThis poem is published in hard copy format in <a class="set2" href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/riotous.php" target="_top"><i>Riotous</i>.</a></span>\n\n<span class="fade" style="width:auto;"><a href="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/riotous.php" target="_top"><img class="shadowed" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="http://www.sidekickbooks.com/images/riotouscover.jpg"></a></span>
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Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
Kirsten Irving
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