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Feto, you're a godfather.
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Sealed off from the world,
denied the fundamental drive of man
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to beget his own kind,
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Stroud developed a world
in microcosm with his birds.
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And because it was safe, and he knew
they would never turn on him,
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he developed a deep but private
love for his canaries,
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as he watched the cycle of love
and mating and issuing forth.