The Pet Thief

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n my shoulder Pretty Boyd sits. Yellow beak makes clic clic clic. Drainpipe whistles up sooty red bricks. Big metal blacksmith key. Juliet balconies creak. Rottled planter boxes leak. Dripdripdrip little eves. Shiver, I. Little stone dresses sigh. Grey sky. Ach. Wot here, Mac. says Pretty Boyd. Black tongue red mask orange eyes watch sky, blinkblinkblink. Only fleabit pigeons. Courtyard broke carts wood slats chairs. Cool brushes my hands neck hair. Fingers tootsies I grrr climb bricks. My shoulder Pretty Boyd claws pinch, green wing flaps my ear, my hair. Lintel, bricks, lamp, flapflap, bricks, moulding flapflapflap Ach, no offense, slowboat, Pretty Boyd springs, thathathatha green wings, tail sails, up, up, Catch you on the flipside Rainbow feathers black under grey sky, Windowsill, shutter, balcony I climb. Grey stone dresses gargoils come. In my throat goes dum ditty dum. Pretty Boyd swoops above, flaflaflap, Peekaboo ach ach ach Dark pigeons scuttle ooorhhh, oooorhh Wings flare, hop hop hop round stone gargoil foots Say, Who this messabout. Beside gargoils on cracked cornice Pretty Boyd lands, Pigeons hop hop, Rainbow wings flap flap. Behold good breedin model, rats. says Pretty Boyd. Pigeon throats swell, O, fancy birdy rooroo Circus in town roorooroo Payaso rooroo Clown rooroo Pagliaccio roorooroo How big schnozz roorooroooooorrhhhh Pigeons scatter thathatha byebye Ats wot I thought hollers Pretty Boyd. Huh, huh, arms tremble, balcony rail my hand takes. Rail shakes. To balcony Planter box falls Crack dirt spills Pfff on railing I stand. Streaked stone foot comes to my hand. O Look. Returned has friend, only Foot our tickles he. Ledge my hand takes, Huh, huh, huh. Down my back trickle tickles. My hands pull, rail shakes, bricks tootsies push, I jump, spin, sit between cracked stone foots. Feathers ruffle, head shakes sidetoside, Pretty Boyd says, Friends in high places, Mac. Pretty Boyd. I say. Pretty, certainly. Boyd Pretty, acquaintance your make to pleased are we. Ach, aint sure wot said, but hoid pretty twice. Broads classy for grotesques. Oboy, troubled are you. Wrong is what. Bunny Freda byebye. Scary hurt. I spy. Danger in is life, baby. Happened what. Baby kidnapped. says Pretty Boyd. Find Bunny before kaputski. Find Bunny Freda. I say. Gargoils stare. Awooogah canal boat. Bee bee bee whiteredgreen cars. Pigeons grumble, Ooorrhh Oorhh That flying piñatas nuts. Gargoils stare. Cool ruffles my hair. My hurting foots. Bricks, my heels kick pap, pap, pap. Across allee, turret. Window. Windowsill pigeons roost, coo, fuss. Oua oua Down below Pekinese paws paddle dirty window. Gargoils stare. Crosslittlecourt,armslegsswingforwardback,forwardback. Crouching terrier poops. Terrier chases arms legs clic clic clic clic. Little streetlamps flic flic flicker. South. Roof mansard, metal red. Dormers three. Ach, south, south, red roof, see them. hollers Pretty Boyd, flapflapflap. Little yellow Freda hair. Little black fedora. Little white coatsleeve hugs little pink spot. Red coat blue coat grey coat black, stalking rooftop forwardback. Go. Baby save you. Balcony below. Spilled dirt, planter box. Off ledge my botty slides Fingernails scratch stone tootsies Ow Rail jumps tong hurts my foots, from wall balcony pulls Screeee tips I fall Tummy jumps, Legs kick, tootsies stiff I fall Hummmm Balcony rail below comes tong hurts foots Owie I fall Rail arms grab, Legs hang I fall Big metal blacksmith key jumps Hands foots catch Wuurrrrrt falls Hum Windowsill comes dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum Wood shutter snaps falls spinning Broke streetlamp comes Hum foots kick bricks, hands let go lamp Bricks slide up shhht scrape palmsfoots, cobblestones jump thupthupt. Owie. I say. Ankles hurt. Fingers bleed. Cobblestones coldhard. Pretty Boyd blue tip wings flapflapflap grey claws land beside me. Taker easy, Mac. Why kill self. Give cats chance ach ach ach. Bricks windows rooftops lean. My eyes black shadows cross. Darkness comes. My mouth says Hummmm. Hurry. little black dresses gargoils say. Down allee I run knees elbows foots tsa tsa tsa tsa. Rainbow wings flap beside. Aaaaach wotta we do, Mac. Pretty Boyd hollers, flaflaflap behind, ahead, beside. My mouth says Hum. Up pavement I run. ...