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Which came first: The chicken or the egg? Well, the **** of the walk Of course! You ought to know, silly kid, That he has always ruled the roost, — Kicking up dirt Crowing all the live-long day Fighting anything that he sees All to prove his strength. That's how he has always been, — One day, he just wanted to take his dominance That little step further And so, the world gave him a hen. So quiet and gentle Sweet and demure She balances him out quite nicely. She spends most of her days Resigned to her coop Laying egg after egg In her warm, dark room. She attends to the **** Whenever he wants her Then becomes a living factory once again, — Producing babies and food Food and babies. She does this for most of her life, — Until she gets too old, that is. She dries up, gets fat And, by Sunday, She'll be on our table for dinner. Laughing and chewing Clucking and squalling We'll sink our teeth in, Never once thinking About how her entire lifetime Was defined by giving And the **** — Well, it won't take him long To pick out a younger, prettier chick To take her place. Which came first, — The chicken or the egg? Obviously, it was the **** of the walk, — The one who screams his triumph at every sunrise The one whose meat is too tough for us to devour The one who will never, ever die. Everything else is just a page in his never-ending story, — Everything else Is merely consequential.
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May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020 at 1:21 PM UTC
ballad of the rooster
Which came first: The chicken or the egg? Well, the **** of the walk Of course! You ought to know, silly kid, That he has always ruled the roost, — Kicking up dirt Crowing all the live-long day Fighting anything that he sees All to prove his strength. That's how he has always been, — One day, he just wanted to take his dominance That little step further And so, the world gave him a hen. So quiet and gentle Sweet and demure She balances him out quite nicely. She spends most of her days Resigned to her coop Laying egg after egg In her warm, dark room. She attends to the **** Whenever he wants her Then becomes a living factory once again, — Producing babies and food Food and babies. She does this for most of her life, — Until she gets too old, that is. She dries up, gets fat And, by Sunday, She'll be on our table for dinner. Laughing and chewing Clucking and squalling We'll sink our teeth in, Never once thinking About how her entire lifetime Was defined by giving And the **** — Well, it won't take him long To pick out a younger, prettier chick To take her place. Which came first, — The chicken or the egg? Obviously, it was the **** of the walk, — The one who screams his triumph at every sunrise The one whose meat is too tough for us to devour The one who will never, ever die. Everything else is just a page in his never-ending story, — Everything else Is merely consequential.
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May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020 at 1:21 PM UTC
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