I BELIEVE in finishing
what I start
even if it means
the finish of me.
DID it get DRY
UNFUNNY in here?
I didn’t detect the plane veering off course
Crashing?
There was that bump
a bit of turbulence
but HELL
that was yesterday?
After all chicken shit IS biodegradable!
Fowl language isn’t the cause of all of our strife.
Chicken scratch doesn’t deplete the Social Security Fund.
Swigging corn-based Ethanol does produce sassy chicks but
we won’t have to call in the Occupy Movement
or hire an attorney
or seek arbitration
to sort through it.
Perhaps
a fan waving
de-hazing of cabin atmosphere
a compromise
Let’s calm down
assure the passengers
that all is WELL
NO NEED TO press the panic button.
The Captain is still in control
that missing parachute means NOTHING!
I’ll tell you what
how about
you take your idea of funny
and open up another MacDonald’s
and I promise not to throw any shovels
of chicken scratch
on your high ARCHES.
How about you try
and notice
the many
KFC’S in your neighborhood
keep your PopEYES
on the DELIVERY?
How about
you slow down
and remark
later in the day
wait long enough to notice
the number of days
hours
minutes
it takes to boil
this hard boiled egg?
It requires
more than talent
It requires more than intelligence
it requires maintenance and
persistence
it requires
non plagiarist use of
and repeated close contact with
a wide assortment of muses
of varying degrees
of competency.
It requires INspiRATION
PersPIRATION and DURATION
and those endangered birds are either
in the Kitchen nuking up some gourmet scratch
or would rather roost in the overhead bins.
No chicken should have to travel alone
down in baggage
in the windowless land of unfunny
IT GETS COLD AT NIGHT
without a blanket of understanding
to claw and peck
blindly through
the hard packed
stubborn
callow
dim terrain.
It requires MORE
than your average ROOSTER
to fertilize these yolkless eggs
to tame
to refine
these would be cacklers.
It requires finesse
a certain gen na sais quois
joie de vi·vre
low lighting
ambience
and fore-play.
IT REQUIRES
FINISHING
WHAT YOU STARTED.
Corney Press 