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Poetic Exchange Over A Chicken With A Fighting Spirit

Summer Lotus
the sweet life
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2 min readDec 21, 2024

Me:

Anyone wants to adopt a defiant, beautiful chicken

Give her freedom or give her death

Give her a mate and she may lay some eggs

She had lost her mate but it was fate

Have Compassion for goodness sake

Reply:

Alas, to have a foul- tempered fowl would be too much to take…

Me:

I concede that chicken is not an easy pet

It may be more destructive than a cat

It pulls, it pegs, it scratches

But look forward to the eggs that it may hatch

In lean times or as a last resort when it proves too much, the chicken can be put in the pot.

Reply;

To keep a peckish hen for its eggs, surely that would mean enjoyment at its very last legs,

You call, you caress, you clean, you care,

I’m sure there’s affection for the pet chicken that you bear,

To place a pet hen on the chopping block and then in the pot

As a last resort? Surely not!

Me;

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Summer Lotus
Summer Lotus

Written by Summer Lotus

Inspired by mundane events to write to become more self aware. Challenge seeker, lover of sports, dental surgeon, ardent Toastmaster.

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