Poultry

Happy Thanksgiving!

The rooster rose to eat the bud,

& cackled long to spit his corn.

The chicken, basted & fried,

rotisserie inside.

The rooster was denied on the

other side. Corn fed, farm raised, sun beaten down—

the fowl meandering on the ground.

Skewered, quartered & petrified

—the rooster

was deprived. The rooster was denied

on the other side,

processed & refined, but in a corporate way,

by foreign boys & women of conscience.