Fowl Play
Copyright © 2016
We mention it so often,
So allow me, please, I beg,
Let’s think it through just one more time,
The chicken and the egg.
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The way we treat the two of them
Is certainly the worst
So does it really matter
Who came second or came first?
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We see the giant factories
Where hens are forced to lay
Illuminated constantly
To make night into day.
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They sit inside their cubicles
Quite unaware of time
Their lives have just a single goal
No reason and no rhyme.
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They never had a choice in it
Their end is not mere fate.
Have you considered how that schnitzel
Sits upon your plate?
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Those eggs may end as omelets
Perhaps your birthday cake
Do chickens have a birthday?
No! They’re here just for our sake!
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Then, many eggs are meant to hatch
These chicks are forced to eat
And at a tender age and size
They’re slaughtered for their meat.
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Awakened just before daybreak
And roughly thrown inside
You see them on the highways
Stuffed in cages, bleary-eyed.
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I want to tell them that the pain
May not last all that long
That here and there, there are a few
Who think that this is wrong.
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The chicken-egg dilemma
Could be solved by not consumin’
And when we see our mirror image
We might look more human.
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Published: Apr 10, 2016
Latest Revision: Apr 10, 2016
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