Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Death Of The Old Plymouth Rock Hen Comments

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It was tragic when her time came
After a lifetime of laying brown eggs
Among the white of leghorns.
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy
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Barbara Barron 29 September 2014

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.

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Pradip Chattopadhyay 06 November 2013

a wonderful poem, Eugene. I can't again look at a hen the same way. each word drips an intense sadness.

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