{"sf1_id":1220895,"sf2_id":"ZmMwVGq1","title":"The Diplomat","author":"charles_they","words":97,"posted_at":"2017-08-01T00:50:33.000Z","tags":["Avian","Bird","Clean","Poem","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1220895-the-diplomat","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmMwVGq1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4a/e2/4ae2b5ee-0eaf-43ed-a918-b2c6c1c43d72","description":"A small, unrhymed piece on diplomats and their lords.","content":"### The Diplomat\n\nThe Diplomat's a sorry, somber sort\n\nwho murmurs, meek, before their looming lords\n\nand sings to them apologies for crimes\u0026nbsp;\n\nunfurled in distant lands by foreign kings\n\nfor whom regurgitation is a part\n\nof every meal, and every meeting, too,\u0026nbsp;\n\nso they may preen and puff their feathers up\n\nin indignation, fulminating fowl\n\nenraged by slights perceived, however small,\n\nand each prognosticates calamity\n\nacross their scintillating spectrum tales,\n\nalthough the prophesied destruction feared\n\nby them is not the falling of the sky,\n\nobliteration of the masses, nor\n\nreturn of wretched exiles to the nest.","series":{"name":"Poetry Postings","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1212646-embrace-the-beast.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1223924-somewhere-on-the-summit.json"}}