Monday, September 21, 2015

Mathilde's Patience

As the inevitable wave of gentrification moves into Petite-Patrie, and as I ponder the owner's potential selling of the building I have lived in for three years, which includes the immanent eviction of people who have been living here for 35 + years, like the Italian Elvis, and Sylvain, the last Quebec Communist, I salute Mathilde the Pigeon, who has made a temporary home on my balcony, out of an old laundry line and random twigs. She's been sitting on her eggs for two weeks now, and she likes when I sit next to her, reading the London Review of Books, preferably with a pot of morning tea. Today it was Elena Ferrante. She has good taste and a lot of patience.


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