The Loop is a novel by Joe Coomer about a thirty-year-old orphan who becomes fixated on the cryptic sayings of a ninety-year-old parrot. Lyman (the main character) tries to find meaning in various meaningless situations in the hopes that this will somehow help him to reconstruct his own past.

Eventually, Lyman names the parrot Luke; throughout the novel Luke-the-parrot says many strange things.