A Chicken On The Loose

A Chicken On The Loose

By Kate Chamberlin

April 01, 2015

Egads! There’s a multi-colored brown chicken on the loose.
He’s pecking and clucking in my backyard.
Why ever did the farmer
let down his guard.

Doesn’t he know the coyote

is one hungry fool?

His eyes are keen and
his choppers are wet with drool.

My dog barks and barks,
thinking this is really a lark.

Our cat sits in the window chattering his teeth.

he wants to sink them deep.

Oh dear gussie,  the chicken  roosts up in the pine tree.
Does he think he’s a little song bird?

The cluck, cluck, cluck
defies any song I’ve ever heard.

There’s a yip yip yodel and a cluck;
the chicken is out of luck.

He gave it all he’d got;
but, the coyote had him caught.

Yes, this is the end of the story;

Egads@ Oh Dear Gussie, and Alas;

I am so sorry.
It may seem rather cruel;
but, it’s actually a joke for April Fool!