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letra de counting birds - sean penn

[intro]
counting birds by jim harrison

[verse]
as a child, fresh out of the hospital with tape covering the left side of my face, i began to count birds
at age fifty, the sum total is precise and astonishing, my only secret
some men count women or cars they’ve owned, their shirts, long sleeved and short sleeved, or shoes, but i have my birds
excluding, of course, the extraordinary days
the twenty-one thousand snow geese and sandhill cranes at bosque del apache
the sky blinded by great frigate birds in the pacific off anconcito, ecuador
the twenty-one thousand pink flamingos in ngorongoro crater in tanzania
the vast flocks of sea birds of the seri coast of the sea of cortez down in sonora that left at nightfall, then reappearing, resuming their exact positions at dawn
one thousand cliff swallows nesting in the sand cliffs of pyramid point
their small round burrows like eyes, really the souls of the anasazi who flew here a thousand years ago to wait the coming of manitou
and then there were the usual, almost deadly birds of the soul
the crow with silver harness i rode one night as if she were a black, feathered angel
the birds i became to escape unfortunate circumstances
how the skin ached as feathers shot out toward the light
the thousand birds the dogs helped me shoot to become a bird
grouse, woodc-ck, duck, dove, snipe, pheasant, prairie chicken, et cetera
on my deathbed, i’ll write a secret number on a slip of paper and pass it to my wife and two daughters
it will be a hot evening in june and they might be glancing out the window at the thunderstorm’s approach from the west
looking past their eyes and a dead fly on the window screen, i’ll wonder if there’s a bird waiting for me in the onrushing clouds
oh, birds, i’ll sing to myself
you’ve carried me along this bl–dy voyage
carry me now to that cloud into the marvel of this final night

- sean penn

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