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Subject: Murder of crows


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Willie
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Date Posted: 09:03:08 11/05/02 Tue

Yesterday the air was energised and I could walk. It's not uncommon to see me stumble up the Greenhills Road, head down, eyes averted, watching the toecaps of my boots rising and falling, clumping clumsily along. But on Monday, going to the bank, the air was different. Walking was no trouble.

There was heavy traffic on the main road, loud and bothersome. Turning into the Dominican Priory I glanced at the handyman or Brother or whoever it was in overalls, loading rounds of logs into a trailer. Perhaps a tree had broken in the recent storm.

At the gates on the other side of the carpark was a flock of crows maybe twelve-strong. They were picking big gold leaves of sycamore off the ground in unison looking for grubs. I thought "Now there's a Kodak moment." At my approach, one looked sideways. As I walked out into Tallaght Village they swirled away ahead of me, bumping, cawing, chuckling at the day.

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