a great absurdity of life
     comes in no lesser
form than...
         as it comes...
             when using
a knife and fork...
to eat a chicken thigh...
or a chicken drum-stick...
without
the joy of using the hands...

of the two households...
where a chicken was eaten
with a knife and fork...
and where a chicken was
eaten with bare hands...
profanity: when enough
meat remains on the bone
that a dog will gladly bite...

otherwise a household...
where even the ends of the bones
are bitten off for the livery
marrow...
or that grand delicacy of
a chicken's neck: you cannot find
more tender meat anywhere:
even if it is poached...
               esp. if it is poached...

    and sometimes a noun
is used as a verb...
to chicken out...
                  
no alternatives:
but a rephrasing... of...
comfortably numb can
become: comforted by numbness -
comforted by a numbing...
          -ing: herr gerund!
                         alternatively:
the chicken story...

apathy: is it truly to be devoid
of all pathology?
or... quiet simply:
to sweep under the rug...
i.e. that there are too many
pathologies to mind...
that apathy is
              a σ of pathology?