Pidgey Song

by Hawki

Poem: There aren't many strong pokémon between Pallet Town and Viridian City. Confronted by a pidgey, it was a fact that was abundantly obvious to Red. Still, he had to catch 'em all, didn't he? And in all fairness, maybe having a bird pokémon wouldn't be so bad...

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Pidgey Song

A flap of little winds,

A gentle, pleasant gust.

I turn my eyes to find the source,

And soon regret the fuss.

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There's a bird before me,

Not in sky but below.

A pokémon, a pidgey,

As Oak's gadget shows.

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I hear its "pidgey" calls,

A sonnet that sounds strange.

"Gotta catch 'em all," I think,

But this bird I am to train?

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My charmander's doing well,

I've got standards to keep.

But this bird keeps twittering,

I could catch it in my sleep.

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I reach for charmander's poké ball,

And the bird does not react.

Maybe I should just capture it,

Save the runt some slack.

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And yet the bird keeps staring,

Does it want to come along?

For fighting, for friendship,

Or to sing its pidgey song?

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I tap my right-side shoulder,

The pidgey comes to perch.

My pokédex thus starts to beep,

From it data does lurch.

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So I've 'caught' myself a pokémon,

A gentle pidgey bird.

But as it gets into a poké ball,

It no longer seems absurd.