So, the pun "Death Jab for Cutie" popped into my head in connection with the pecks. I know nothing about the band Death Cab for Cutie -- only that there is a band with that name -- so I ran an image search for their album covers. Lo and behold . . .
While we're on the subject of musical prophecy, there's also the 2004 song "We're All In This Together," from the self-titled debut album of Old Crow Medicine Show. Corvids and medicine! Later a different song (or several different songs?) with that same title would be promoted as the "birdemic anthem."
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Quoth the Corvid "Nevermore!"
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Corvid "Nevermore!"
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Corvid "Nevermore!"
And the Corvid, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Is the Bust of Pallas the TV? Looks like Edger Allen Poe prophecied that the corvid will nevermore leave the TV.
"Take thy beak from out my heart" -- cf. "my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at."
The first result for me was "I Will Follow You Into The Dark", which is about death. My understanding of the lyrics is he doesn't want Heaven or Hell, but just annihilation.
I may be misreading, but my understanding of the psychology around the Death Jab is that even if it kills, maims, or is completely useless, whatever - the person accepting it still is certain it is the Right Choice and Worth It. The mentality certainly doesn't appear to be about health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3iV_1ESMHaI
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