Poor
Cock, you have no arms but I
Have two,
I can’t imagine why
God
should in all his glorious might
Abandon
you to such a plight
From dawn
to dusk you scratch around
With two
feet firmly on the ground
But
adding to your list of woes
You are
endowed with just three toes
Poor cock
is that the reason why
You waken
me with anguished cries
For I
myself, if so endowed
Would
surely cry out just as loud
Yet just
today, with one leg raised
You stood
and so God should be praised
For if
distracted at the last
He might
have left just one leg cast
And
though your wings won’t let you fly
Like
other birds that grace the sky
Your
frantic flaps from floor to fence
Escape
the tomcat’s false pretence
And so
you strut around the yard
The
chicken’s handsome bodyguard
That
humans blessed with hands (like me)
Should learn to feel
humility
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