Ten Dead Chickens

Inspired by my recent African experience.

 

 

Ten Dead Chickens

 

We woke to find ten

Dead chickens in the yard

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Not a single broken neck between them

And no throats cut either

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This was not the work of

Dog, fox, dingo or feral cat

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We checked the water was untainted

And the grain still fresh

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However without funds and goods

To exchange or pay the Vet Man

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It was necessary to consult

A local Shaman

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Who threw three bones

A stone and a feather

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All loosely bound in un-tanned leather

Against the dung wall

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He then concluded

We were visited in the night

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By some mischievous Dust Devil

Who simply came to play and merely took

Ten chicken’s breaths away

.

 

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Wow a random piece of entertainment based on experience. Very different and readable Nev!

[Neville]

Thanks John, yeah you could say it random round & round and then it random down. Words, often fail to convey the significance of events for lots of reasons. I chose to try & depict the demise of ten chickens along the Senegambia strip because it seemed more of an event for those either side of the yard than the suicide of their owner laterthat same day. AGT's N

[John Alexander McFadyen]

What?! Really? That sounds worth a short story or a poem in itself!

[Neville]

Really & truely & maybe one day. N

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And maybe one day you will read my work

[Neville]

I aim to do some reading asap, I am very busy at the moment what with one thing and another, N