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a pirate's greatest treasure is her parrot

2011-08-24 - 8:59 a.m.

It sounds terrible to say so, but it seemed as if I hadn't played my records -- CDs now -- in years. One tires of sound, being in the casino all the time. However, a couple of evenings ago, I played a couple of albums. Later, I sang a little song to Cookie, a tuneless, one note, one line song, which is about all I can sing, something like this:

Ahoy, matey, to Cookie and his bell
Ahoy, matey, to Cookie and his bell
Ahoy, Cookie and his bell
This is the story of Cookie and his bell!
Now, here is the cute part. Last night, I decided to put on a nice neutral background music type of record, to ignore while I was reading my book. I picked Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds, which is one of those that you've forgotten you ever heard it the minute it goes off. I put it on pretty low, so as not to interfere with the reading of the thrilling mystery.

Suddenly, to my surprise, I snapped aware that Cookie was singing, and that he had been singing for some time. However, he wasn't singing as people sing, or as trained Amazons sing, with words. Nor was he sort of throatily whispering/muttering under his breath, as he often does, in a sort of faux version of singing which is just really making soft noises to say "Cookie is here too." Instead he was singing as the birds sing, a trilly line or two of whistled notes, repeated over and over. Even when he caught my eye and realized that I was listening, he continued to sing. He even started anew, more boldly, when that CD went off and I replaced it with Laurie Anderson.

So Cookie can sing. Perhaps he has always been able to sing, but I've never heard him perform for such an extended period of time, as opposed to a few warbles here or there just to prove he can do it.

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