Raining Starlings

Rigid birds fell from way up high

A cloud of dead birds from the sky

It was the first I had ever seen

Never saw so many dead birds on a bed of green

I look across at the neighbors over to my right

Neighbors to my left too and there in plain sight

Grounds covered in heaps of these feathered friends

Starlings had been killed and the USDA contends

That they were a hazard to the well being of chicks

Always eating their feed so they couldn’t mix

Request from the local farmers had brought this dismay

Lots more of these birds will be poisoned another day

It was a move to control these European imports

Numbers exceeded a manageable one of sorts

God gave us dominion so we can determine who’ll stay alive

Starlings were poisoned so that other birds can survive