What should be euphoric

21 days the expectancy

of life within the cell

warm and moist

and dense with air

what else can we tell

29 million eggs per day

are eaten in the UK

so hatching out of one of them

is the one that got away

well up to a point

if it is male

what they going to do

is win a brand new ticket

to a place

where very few

ever come back smiling

for the conveyor belt

to hell

is the conveyor belt of joyous chirps

but its not to dinky dell

instead its to the great toothed one

the big steel grinder, who

we are pushed  head first

along

and we all fall into

a yellow mash of bodies

thats when the chirpings cease

those already on the conveyor

they will soon find peace

some may get another form of death

its suffocation

tossed into great plastic bags

an end to all salvation

a great bundle of feathery souls

chirping for all their worth

sitting in the sunshine

considered of no worth

as for me a chick I’d hoped

to see the world again

this is my 15th incarnation

but, what I now deign

to realize is the majority of

chicks

will die this way

unless you are  female

then its curtains too

okay

you become a pullet then a hen

and maybe you

will end up in some farm yard cat

or some gamey stew