****-a-doodle-do! ****-a-doodle-do! Cockcrow! Wake up, you poor humans! The crazy, heartless sapient-irrationals! You glug your cocktails in our names, And slay, roast, and offer us to God, And atone slyly your un-atonable sins.
Our lovely sickle tails, you used, once, To concoct the cocktails you gulped; And coveted our red comb and wattle, The bright yellow of our cape and hackle, The glittering blue of our wing bows, And the violet-red of the back and saddle.
Oh no! Donβt strip us of our fair plumage Our sickle, main tail and the lesser sickle, Our fluff, hock joint, shank and the spur, To the toes and claws, for you to toil Hard, to fry--stir-fryβus, **** in your oil, For your vain cocktail-less cocktail summits.