Chicken Brick’n

Because there’s no end to cruelty,                    Lyle ties half a brick                                        to a hen’s foot, climbs the ladder up the water tower                    where waits Tony—together,                                        they toss their weighted hens into space: the flung chicken                    that charts its course                                        across clear air, fans its wings...

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