100 Words: The sign

The sign by the lagoon was written in the voice of the ducks, as though the ducks had written it, or spoken words in English that were then transcribed, or words in their own language that were then translated and transcribed. “Please don’t feed us bread,” the sign said, and went on to describe the deleterious effects bread-feeding might have upon the ducks’ digestion, upon the pond on which the ducks swam, upon algae and upon fish. The sign asked us to reconsider our interventions into a system not easily grasped as ducks swam, wordlessly, under the sun’s nothing new.