Swifts

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Swifts spin like bullets,
Shot from a rifled barrel gun.
They reach the apex of their climbing
Before falling from the Sun.
Unlike Icarus, they never stop flying,
Hunting, sleeping on the wing,
Stuffing
Gnats and mosquitoes into their gullets,
Yet, still, they find the time to sing.

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