Poor Troubadour

Troubadour abjures all heredity,
bird and beggar's predicament is but
incidental accident that found them
as they were on their way I forgot where...

they became other than they intended,
music intervened, and the beggar begged
for coin of another realm, old that's new,
the bird discerned the lyric of language

on the winding road, wordbird and beggar
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