CUCKOO

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lonely baby 

consumes love

peepo

we

know


Cuckoo ejects the other hatchlings and consumes all that parents give, while posing as their own, unbeknown, even to himself.

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I had a go here at a diminishing number of syllables, but found I had one left over, unconsumed.



Image: author J J Harrison, Wikipedia cuckoo page, Creative Commons attribution Share alike 3.0 Unported 

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