#SongoftheDay Take Me Home (Phil Collins)

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I found this post in my drafts, obviously written back when my partner still had his house:

I'm sitting in the backyard at my partner's place and a cardinal lands on our patio table, which is drenched because it's been raining all day. The cardinal has something in its beak. At first, I'm not sure what. Then it sets the thing down on the tabletop, and I can see that it's a moth.

The cardinal plucks off the moth's wings one by one, and they flutter around before sticking to the wet glass table.

Once the moth has no wings, the cardinal takes the moth-body in its beak and flies away.

This song is playing on the radio.


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