a giant chicken flew
into this cuckoo's nest
a prank for my sister
from our dad, delivered by air
a cousin packing it thru TSA
Montana to Alaska
creating more laughter
than an average fowl
there is something
about a chicken crossing
state lines and roads
and strutting about
on spindly steel legs
silent and staring off
a hollow head, heartless
no meat to eat
cannot crow, or cluck
yet leaves us all chuckling
[April 24th, 2023. --- 24 poems for National Poetry Month.]
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