Pigeon II
? Do you recognise her      he enquired with an air of menace.
Well, her legs had been tied together - nothing strange there! - 
and her visage bore a pained expression. Again, she had a face worse
than death at the best of times, but now Death itself had spoken:
One spacebar too many; one full stop   too   .   soon  
 .   Shit   I mused, observing the mess around me    and yeah
I do recognise her!that's my bird
I crawled over the other bodies and gently stroked her ringed neck
(old habits die hard). I unfastened the ring and casually slipped it
into my pocket.
Vermin!  declared Rufus. !Damn He seemed to know everything about her.
                                                   SL / TLS