Penned In
from Homelands
a Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen book
Cock-a-doodle
how do you do?
Rooster, fair weather
shaking his tail feathers
strutting his stuff
never enough
that comb on top
preening, scheming
non-stop.
Rudest of dudes
leads his brood.
“with a
cluck-cluck
here, and a
clack-clack
there, here a
cluck
there a
clack
everywhere a
cluck-clack
cluck-clack
cluck-clack
cluck-clack”
chicken run,
racing down the tracks.
Which came first?
The ‘lectric or the lights?
Boxcars, larders laden
gently laid in
a mistake to break
a few eggs for
omelets.
Yard bull
the big shake
seeing red
busting heads
toe-to-toe
with hobos.
All the while
the wily fox stalks
over in the henhouse
picking up chicks
yip-yapping
yadda-yadda-yadda
jaws flapping
gotta gotta gotta