From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihuxv!portegys
Newsgroups: net.poems
Title: Why God Kills Chickens
Article-I.D.: ihuxv.345
Posted: Sun Sep 26 21:13:56 1982
Received: Thu Sep 30 07:44:14 1982

This poem comes from a little episode at dinner
with my daughter.


     Why God Kills Chickens

In her fifth year
She learned where the meat on her plate 
Comes from.
It went over quickly
And then was back a half hour later
Strong.
And she sang a little while,
After that little look into her heritage
And her destiny.


      Tom Portegys, ...ihuxv!portegys