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Footnote: Out Around The Hen House
"Your world is you."
---Wallace Stevens, "Bantams In Pine-Woods"
Long-beaked bantam, you
presumed to be cock of the
walk, pecking any
perceived foe, until that grim,
sly fox made away with you.
Your bones, picked clean, and
your useless beak were found at
the woods' edge, not far
from a pile of fresh fox turds,
which the rains will soon dissolve.
Boys---long-haired, shoeless,
shirtless, jeansclad; lovers---laugh
at your loss, during
long walks through meadows when loose
grass stems cling to their blue socks.
Kyakuchuu
