i see dead pigeons

i see dead pigeons... flattened onto the newly bituminized road.
i see dead pigeons... gutted on the side of the canal, a rapacious seagull leisurely tearing off chunks of meat as not-dead pigeons look on from the sidelines.
i see dead pigeons... standing still against a wall, head bent down in realistic simulacrum of sleep, waiting for the neighbourhood tomcat to claim its toy.
i see dead pigeons... eating berries, red berries off a bush, poisonous berries, they're dead already, they just don't know it.
i see dead pigeons... just the head of one, right under my nose, staring at me with its beady eyes.

it is true, i see dead pigeons. harbingers of bad news. omens. messages misheard. voices hushed. undertones of madness. visions of horror. mundane encounters. dead. fucking. pigeons.