“Why isn't there more meat on this chicken
It's as if the damned thing began starving itself
once it knew what the future had in store for it
Is this what they mean by "organic"”

—  John Yau

"Domestic Bliss" lines 10-13, Borrowed Love Poems, Penguin, 2002

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