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I’m going to buy some chickens
\ndown in Chinatown.
\nOn Kneeland Street, you hear them bleat,
\ntheir entrails on the ground.
\nThey’re disemboweled daily.
\nThe pigeons have a feast.
\nIt seems an end, alas, my friend,
\ntoo foul for even beast.
\nBut people need their chicken,
\nlike people need their bread.
\nWhen I buy two, old Mister Woo
\nsays, "With or without head?"
\nHe’ll chop those heads off for you,
\nbut I still take them home.
\nI decorate faux reprobate,
\nin early chickendome.<\/p>\n

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