About a Bird, Aboo

An Ode to Aboo, by the Poem Lady, Marlene Bremner, at Seattle's Sunday Ballard Farmers Market:

About a bird,

Aboo, brightly

cerulean blue,

only speaks

when he wants to,

squacking loudly

or a quiet coo,

hooked bill

and a lengthy tail

an emerald crown

and a feathery

veil, parrot

of the city streets,

sqaucks

at everyone

he meets!