Credit: Photo By Will Van Overbeek

i believe in the great mystery

the gathering of the flock

but not my brother morty

he asserts that cornbread dressing is not a truck to paradise…

and now in a flurry of feathers and a spray of blood

i know i have taken my life for granted

pecker to peeper to top tom in the pen

sold for a handful of mutated corn

and i gobble…

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