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Ortolan

An ortolan
is a songbird
sometimes eaten
as a delicacy.
Music ought not
to be eaten
just as thoughts are not
for drinking.
Take a yellow-throated
brownish bunting
drowned in Armagnac
and put it in an oven.
Seed-eating finches
are not for consumption;
emberizids
look bad amongst embers:
four indigestible syllables
washed down with wine.
Fly,
or be dismembered.