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Chicken or Egg?

When contemplating the great question:
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
it is important to remember
that the egg is inconsequential:
just a thin shell thing covering the hen.
So then:
the chicken or the chicken?
Which is the beginning?

That one chicken comes from another, we know,
so why ask the question?
Why spend time pondering
what's obvious, what's...
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The wooden leaves smell like attic timbers - juicy, yellow old beams. I run my thumb along their edges and they part and press together again like eyelashes rooted in its spine. It is a small dead bird in my hand. Its paper generates feather-warmth on my palm. It is a record of life, a ledger; its image; its shadow fallen till its sun sets....
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