21 days the expectancy<\/p>\n
of life within the cell<\/p>\n
warm and moist<\/p>\n
and dense with air<\/p>\n
what else can we tell<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
29 million eggs per day<\/p>\n
are eaten in the UK<\/p>\n
so hatching out of one of them<\/p>\n
is the one that got away<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
well up to a point<\/p>\n
if it is male<\/p>\n
what they going to do<\/p>\n
is win a brand new ticket<\/p>\n
to a place<\/p>\n
where very few<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
ever come back smiling<\/p>\n
for the conveyor belt<\/p>\n
to hell<\/p>\n
is the conveyor belt of joyous chirps<\/p>\n
but its not to dinky dell<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
instead its to the great toothed one<\/p>\n
the big steel grinder, who<\/p>\n
we are pushed \u00a0head first<\/p>\n
along<\/p>\n
and we all fall into<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a yellow mash of bodies<\/p>\n
thats when the chirpings cease<\/p>\n
those already on the conveyor<\/p>\n
they will soon find peace<\/p>\n
some may get another form of death<\/p>\n
its suffocation<\/p>\n
tossed into great plastic bags<\/p>\n
an end to all salvation<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
a great bundle of feathery souls<\/p>\n
chirping for all their worth<\/p>\n
sitting in the sunshine<\/p>\n
considered of no worth<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
as for me a chick I’d hoped<\/p>\n
to see the world again<\/p>\n
this is my 15th incarnation<\/p>\n
but, what I now deign<\/p>\n
to realize is the majority of<\/p>\n
chicks<\/p>\n
will die this way<\/p>\n
unless you are \u00a0female<\/p>\n
then its curtains too<\/p>\n
okay<\/p>\n
you become a pullet then a hen<\/p>\n
and maybe you<\/p>\n
will end up in some farm yard cat<\/p>\n
or some gamey stew<\/p>\n
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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 … Continue reading