The Dot And Dash Bird

December, 1964

The Dot and Dash BirdThe Myna, in black pomposity of feathers, with chief justice's leveling eyes, worked at its chuffy song, gurrah, gurree, gruh-greeg. Walter Jack Commice ticked out the beat on the surface of his free-shape pale-lemon Formica desk, bop, bop, bop-bop.When he became aware of what his fingers were doing, he looked up quickly from the puce-colored IBM typewriter to study the dark presiding figure in it curlicued brass cage."I spit on your trivialized smut guts, too, scum eye...