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Not Averse
No point, she said, in keeping the old girls—
Grey in the wattle, scabbed about the arse
Eating us out of chicken feed.
But that was to miss the glory of it—
The warm egg
Dropping from the golden heaven of her vent
Misshapen, shitten, and matted with old feather.