Friday, 13 April 2012

a fifth poem...'chicken'

It’s a long walk home

From Broadway to the Common:

Past red and white chicken shops,

Half empty chicken cartons and chips,

Trodden into the road.

With chicken grease and table salt

On their slack and wide lips

A few stray revellers

Shaking their hips,

And their bones -

Chicken legs in chicken suits

All over the stones.

It’s a long walk home,

But a taxi ride with the rest of them,

And their chicken brains and chicken moans,

Isn’t what you want

When you want your chicken

All your own.

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