THE CHICKEN AND THE RAVEN, a poem by Edi Duarte and Tom Leonard

                                                                     

                                                                                               

                                                                      THE CHICKEN AND THE RAVEN

The chicken with the shrill voice

Danced with the crazy man from Hell;

They moved like a puppet toy

And the feelings emerged from their little shell.

“Who are you inside?” he inquired,

You make me feel utterly wired.”

Clapping its wings the chicken would reply,

“I cannot tell you as we are all trying to find ourselves. That’s why."

‘There’s a raven inside me trying to get out,” shrieked the madman.

“Until she does, I can’t love nowt.”

“Love is over-rated,” clucked the chicken, ‘but I will let you know

that what you’ll find in me is a very manly crow.”

by Edi Duarte and Tom Leonard