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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