Birds are not a metaphor

I went expecting a cruelty and found a sport that the birds clearly understand better than the crowd does.

They dive, they strafe, they break off. Somebody beside me explained that a losing card still pays a bird, so it is never a true loss, and said it the way you would explain water.

There were two faces in the stands who have no business being in the same building. I wrote that down and then I looked at it for a while and I am still not sure what to do with it.

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