meditations in green

"Argggghhhhh!" I said pleasantly.

A sudden excruciating pain had just erupted in the region of my right ear lobe.

It was a pain I recognised, a pain that I have come to associate with the activities of a certain ear biting green budgie who happened at that moment to be perched on my shoulder.

Presently the pain subsided.

"Greeny," I ventured. "Why do you keep biting my ear?"

The green budgie shrugged her feathers.

"We owe it to ourselves to live a little," she explained.

"You think that's an excuse?" quoth me in high dudgeon.

"Allah U Akbar," replied Greeny cryptically.