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The Beginning of Memory
Laurie Anderson

There's a story in an ancient play about birds called The Birds

And it's a short story from before the world began

From a time when there was no earth, no land.

Only air and birds everywhere.

But the thing was there was no place to land.

Because there was no land.

So they just circled around and around.

Because this was before the world began.

And the sound was deafening. Songbirds were everywhere.

Billions and billions and billions of birds.

And one of these birds was a lark and one day her father died.

And this was a really big problem because what should they do with the body?

There was no place to put the body because there was no earth.


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