What creeps me out

Flamingos. There is something I find disturbing about the western cultural attachment to kitsch icons of the peculiar illogical pink bird. 

It's image appears nearly everywhere. What is it people associate with this bird. What does it mean? 

The gaudy obnoxious presence of flamingos haunt me, they appear on shirts and shop windows and adds for travel to exotic locations an actual flamingo has never been seen. There are ornaments and pool toys and erasers. Anything you can imagine. 

From a peculiar lawn ornament in the late 50s, they have sprouted. No sense to it at all.

I collect the damned things just to remind myself, life is absurd