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risa mickenberg

" how weird is this? me and boo cogan had passed out on the golf course. at like, 5 o'clock in the morning we wake to this noise i've never heard. screeeeeeeeching. and we see there's this huge weird bird, hurt and flapping around on the green. like two feet high and square and its screaming. we get closer and i see it's an owl. huge fucking owl with eyes that really are like the eyes they macrame and its head could turn all the way around. i hadn't seen an owl since i was a little kid out at flander's nature center. big claws.

a couple of crows were dive bombing it. we walked up to it and it turned and ran right at us, flapping and shrieking. i was still a little drunk and it was so early out, it made me feel emotional. it was like we were hallucinating. i felt close to puking and i started to feel really raw out there on that gold course.

i felt like the world was full of pissed-off birds that any minute were going to turn on us."

5:09 p.m. - 2004-05-26

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