The events of today in Venezuela brought to my mind the poem “Doomsday” by Sylvia Plath.

In this context, the "idiot bird" symbolizes chaos and upheaval, signaling the fall of civilization.

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The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans
 Atop the broken universal clock:
 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.
 Out painted stages fall apart by scenes
 While all the actors halt in mortal shock:
 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

 
 Streets crack through in havoc-split ravines
 As the doomstruck city crumbles block by block:
 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

 
 Fractured glass flies down in smithereens;
 Our lucky relics have been put in hock:
 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

 
 The monkey's wrench has blasted all machines;
 We never thought to hear the holy cock:
 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

 
 Too late to ask if end was worth the means,
 Too late to calculate the toppling stock:
 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans,
 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.