HOT  FEATHERED TANGOS  (2-14-2003, Valentine's Day, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)

             
horny male pigeons                
in mating season                
frantically scurry                
around their intended                
feathered female                
procreative pigeon prey                
spreading their                
iridescently colored                
tail fans                
out and down
feather tips
angled
to the ground
as they dance
spin
and sweep around
in repetitious figure eights
and quick step
rapid  cooing circles
in hopes of                
winning over                
the elusively                
evasive attention                
and eventual                
chosen favor                
of as many              
resistant                
mostly disinterested                
beady eyed                
she hen                
pigeon senoritas              
out there                
as they can manage                
to corner                
in some tight              
little  spot or place                
of momentary                
no escape                
up on rooftops                
window ledges                
or even on                
the ground                
longing for some                
sweet surrender                
in hopes of                
ruffling up                
some juicy  heated down                
so many hot                
feathered tangos                
goin down                
all over this                
beautiful                
wondrous town                
which upon                
my first seeing                
their heatedly aggressive                
folkloric looking                
pigeon courting dance                
right down near my feet                
left me both                
surprised and elated                
completely entranced    
and intrigued    
with instant wonderment                
at my first ever sight                
of their hot                
feathered                
frantic  little dance                
their hot crazy                
avian tango          
which first looked          
and seemed          
between them                
more like                
a dance of                
opposing magnets                
of male                
hormonal passions                
insatiable                
vain attraction                
in relentless  hot pursuit                
of the much more                
coy and aloof                
she hens collective    
overall              
chill disinterest                
and their persistent                
skillful avoidance    
by playing so hard to get    
against the consistent    
mostly failed    
futile attempts    
of the brutishly aggressive    
bombastic male pigeons    
equally persistent    
assaultively frequent                
close calls              
which somewhat mirror    
in their openly public    
pompous display    
though without quite as much    
decorous regalia    
and overly glorified    
pigeon style pageantry    
as their human counterparts  
much more cruelly brutal    
literal blood bath slaughter    
merciless killing fields dance    
of traditional spanish bullfights    
unconscionable spectacles    
shamelessly gory acts        
only on a much              
smaller scale      
without feathers    
nor any blood letting    
intentions    
in their prolifically successful    
primal act    
of procreating new life    
rather than like mankinds    
historic need    
and baffling proclivity    
of so violently taking life away    
whereas in the case    
and obvious contrast    
of all these horny pigeons    
the natural orchestration    
of their more subtle    
though still flamboyant    
pre screw  feathered dance    
played out    
in their own                
peculiar pigeony way              
of stylistically graceful display              
where with each                
and every                
aggressive          
heatedly driven    
feather sweeping    
relatively graceful pass                
of the determined males       
overbearing libidos    
desperate horniness               
as he so stubbornly        
tries in vain    
so tirelessly    
over and over again    
and again                
to bring each target    
of his intentions    
submissively down           
to conquer and seed        
but upon which point             
she simply                
turns her back                
on him    
in their frantic    
swirling    
counter evasive    
pasodoble pigeon spins    
   
without music    
of course    
she spins around            
then quickly        
waddle walks away        
while simultaneously        
letting out        
one last time          
again        
though more loudly        
and sharply emphatic        
this time around        
her final              
coo doo ooo looo                
as her        
overly flustered          
abrupt retort                
to her most recent          
close call encounters          
last second                
successful escape          
but given                
the obvious nature                
of her persistent          
annoying situation          
i can only          
imagine            
in this fleeting          
residual afterthought          
left spinning          
here now          
in the quickly fading          
wake          
of this real time          
pigeonesque            
little drama          
that just went down          
here below me          
right nearby my feet          
just what          
her final        
more emphatic responses          
exclamatory reaction          
may have actually          
intended          
to convey          
to her hyper horny          
pushy  feathered          
male aggressor          
which seemed          
to me          
to be          
as she shouted out          
in her very best              
pigeon speak          
spanish          
her one last          
truly final          
coo doo ooo loo      
which seemed      
to me      
to be      
nothing more      
yet      
nothing less      
than her brave      
though greatly relieved      
victoriously      
effective      
definitive      
grand      
       
ole