Budgie

She shone in radiant glee When I brought her a budgie She said ‘I would make it talk Teach it words round the clock’. Somewhere she had read And it stuck in her head That of all the birds Budgie learns the most words. Since then she didn’t spare a bit Deemed it a marvellous feat She would achieve if that bird Learn at least one word. She remained strongly steadfast Teach it words she must But the bird so rudely stubborn Not a word in its mouth was born. ‘Say bird please good morning’ She mouthed day and evening But other than its own tweet The budgie didn’t learn a bit.