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   Sebastian Schloessingk




      THOUGHT THROUGH

In a village a sign outside a house
directed at occasional through-traffic
read ‘Oven Ready Poultry’. What did it mean?
That freshly plucked chickens were now for sale,
and if no takers would be frozen by nightfall?
Or that backyard chickens pecking about
could be knocked off there and then, were ready
to be killed, were mentally ‘oven ready’?

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