Hope is the thing with feather (dusters).
If you are oldish like me. Or you have spent a lot of time cleaning, you have probably used a feather duster. I prefer those new-fangled dusters like Swiffer. It always seemed to me that all a feather duster did was move the dust around, although manufacturers swear that if you have a duster with ostrich feathers, the dust is efficiently captured in the feather parts, whatever those parts are called You have to admit, though, that a feather duster is more lovely than a Swiffer duster, which is made of, I don't know, something plastic? Nevertheless, how do they get the feathers? Do they kill the ostrich first, and then pluck the feathers? What do they do with the undesirable feathers? What do they do with the rest of the ostrich? Who are "they"? It doesn't seem so pretty--in fact it seems downright sinister--if you think about the other "extraneous" ostrich parts. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune with...