It was tragic when her time came
After a lifetime of laying brown eggs
Among the white of leghorns.
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a wonderful poem, Eugene. I can't again look at a hen the same way. each word drips an intense sadness.
What, no more eggs? Death to the old, incapable, out of fashion, uneducated, bewildered, confused, depressed and poor. All is lost in this once great republic.