I was very excited to see the cue word, chickens, for the six sentence challenge from https://unchartedblogdotorg.wordpress.com this week, as I just so happened to have written the book on chickens.
Chicken Shift Session poetry, best served as bathroom or bedside reading. Also suitable for coffee table. Philosophy-lite that will satisfy your questions about chickens that cross roads. Can be taken as seriously as you deem appropriate.
So I will submit a poem for my six sentence response this week, page 33 of Chicken Shift; Poems of Crossings & Roadkill. (The best unread poetry collection about road crossing chickens and muskrats that’s out there, bar none)
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Barred Rock
A chicken walks into a bar
then realizes she’s in the wrong joke
sits beside the gorilla anyway
orders a Jim and coke.
She looks to her other side
and who is sitting there?
Eating shoots and leaves
she sees a Panda bear;
and in the backroom, reserved for cigar smokers
she sees a group of dogs, around a table playing poker.
She has another drink, says, “I lay, but I don’t lie.
I’ve got to cross the road, though I can’t think why.”
The gorilla was gallant, he picked up her tab
and he suggested it’d be best to cross the road by cab.
A book about chickens… what a wonderful coincidence! This was a delightful poem that provided just the smile I needed at the end of a too long day. Done perfectly, over easy! 🙂
Josie Two Shoes
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Thank you and I am glad it came to you when you needed it.
To be specific, the book is a collection of poems about chickens, and some fur bearing mammals, crossing roads; they don’t all make it. Such is life.
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Ha – clever. I’ll have to check out your book.
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Love the mixing of chickens, pandas and grammar! When I have an address that is not New Mexico, I’ll be ordering Chicken Shift and For the Girls.
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There are many allusions, if not illusions, throughout Chicken Shift. Ever read the book on grammar, “Eats Shoots and Leaves”? And that poor gorilla, good sport, has walked into many a bar joke.
Your proposed purchase honors me. Just between us chickens, Lulu is the better deal, dime-wise. Either way, it’s always a thrill when one leaves the shelves by any route.
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Yes! There’s another version and it has to do with copy for advertising. Gorillas often seem to walk into bar stories. I look forward to your books, and I’ll look them up on Lulu. I’ve purchased many research books through Lulu for obscure town histories or regional genealogies. They do a nice job with binding and print.
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