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Poetic Exchange Over A Chicken With A Fighting Spirit
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;