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Robert J Lertsema hosted Morning Pro Musica
each morning his program began very quietly 
unhurriedly increasing pre-recorded bird chirps and whistlings 
a few minutes expanded peeps into unrestrained cacophony 
blending with an overture or symphony  
eclipsing the birds in recession.
The raucous near-violence of the birdsong
is attributed to an excess of pleasure
by some historians of Menkalinan
a binary star in the Auriga constellation.
In those days, our radio was programmed for 7 AM
my wife, young children, and I enjoyed waking with
The Birds Of Menkalinan.