Strange Migration

Poetry - Humor

Would that I were
a bird 
flying toward you today

 .\."'- 

Doesn't matter what kind
of bird.
Descending, I'd hear you say,

         .\."'- 

"Get on outta here, 
odd bird!"
in your peculiar way. 

                     .\."'- 

You'd flail your arms, 
"Go, bird!"
Screaming a mayday. 

                     .\."'- 

Later, how we'd laugh. I'm
the bird
that accidentally transformed
back into a human while hovering

                                         .\."'- 

directly above you and 
whoosh! fell right

  .\."'- 

into your arms, 
but as you 
went to take a step,
the bird
transfiguration potion bottle

                       .\."'- 

in your pocket broke,
the potion soaked into our skin,
and now we're doomed to
be birds
forever

                                           .\."'- 

unless we figure out how 
to get our hands...err wings on some
bird-sized
lab coats and goggles, 
sneak into the lab,

 .\."'- 

concoct an antidote, synthesize
enough for two doses, 
find the antidote injector, 

modify the injector coils 
so that it's safe
for bird
use, and inject the 
precise volume of antidote

                   .\."'- 
 
(taking too much will
nullify the effect, and with
too little, we'll be some variation
of a bird-human
hybrid, which might not be too bad,

                                        .\."'- 

but you don't get any say
in which parts become
bird
and which parts become human;

          .\."'- 

like, we could end up with
one bird
foot and a beak, 
and they'd capture us
and put us on display
at a roadside attraction).

                             .\."'- 

That'd be something.

  .\."'- 


Ninjastroni 2026

The first line is from a poem by The Quantum Quill. Thanks!