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Great piece, I want to see what they all look like. It’s wonderful, the way you use humor to get through fear.
nice….no more chickens for me though
wonderful!
I can just see her sporting her new yellow neoprene…
A sonnet on Chicken breeds! You truly made my day!
A man, his fiddle and crows
What a great sonnet – I can’t wait to share it with my chicken-raising friends! Love the last couplet.
Humour is a great way of approaching fear. I don’t think I could slaughter anything bigger than a slug. My grandmother used to ‘pluck’ chickens. I guess that nowadays most of us are pretty remote from what we eat.
Great poem!! Chickens have such creative names.
I also put great value on farm raised meat but I tried slaughtering chickens once. I will leave it for the more stout at heart. I couldn’t eat it after it was done.
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