Mocking Bird Attack

On June 16th,  2017, I attend the NABIG or
the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
on 116th St. and 3rd Avenue
in the Harlem section of Manhattan.
 
During the lunch break, 
I head out to the outside courtyard on the second floor
with over a dozen tables.  No one is in the courtyard. 
I go to the farthest table
to enjoy my brown bagged lunch and coffee.
 
Fifteen feet from me a Mocking Bird lights on the railing
and starts squawking at me. 
It seems very upset and I tell it to bugger off. 
The bird looks like a miniature flying road runner to me, 
I have never seen a bird like this. 
This bird is really upset. 
 
The bird flies at my face and begins flying all around me. 
I throw my silver coffee container into my lunch carrier,
and with my other hand, 
hold my satchel bag over my head
as I start running towards the building doors
fifty feet away. 
 
A security agent witnesses the action, laughs
and walkie-talkies his boss
and several other agents.  
When they walk out unto the courtyard,
 there is no bird to be seen.  
Ten minutes later,  
I walk into the courtyard for 10 seconds,  
and the bird takes off from a brick wall fifty feet away
for my head again.

I remember videos of mocking birds
dive bombing pedestrians walking past trees
with their nests above on You Tube.  

In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird, 
attorney father Atticus Finch says, 
“…it is a sin to kill a mocking bird.” 
Trust you me, 
if I had a tennis racket with me, 
I would smacked this
angry
dive bombing
mocking bird
into eternity.  

Of course,
I would have placed the dead bird
under a wooden bench
for an alley cat
to enjoy for dinner.