19 June 2019

Snippets ~ Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Why isn't there more meat on this chicken 
It's as if the damned thing began starving itself 
once it knew what the future had in store for it 

from "Domestic Bliss" (2002) by John Yau (b. 1950) 

The Oxford Book of American Poetry 
Chosen and Edited by David Lehman 
Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.

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