[Stylist] Poem: "Rotisserie Chicken"

[Barbara HAMMEL]

I do love your language but this particular poem totally loses me both in its vagueness and its lines of varying lengths. 
 Barbara Hammel

> On Dec 5, 2018, at 18:54, Abraxas Ardent via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> HI Stylists,
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> Just finished this poem and thought I'd send it along. It's not especially seasonal, but it occurred to me in this time of feasting. I'm pretty sure it's clear of typos; I've switched to Wordpad instead of the bare bones WP which comes with JAWS, and it bleats about misspellings as a matter of course.
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> Rotisserie Chicken
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> Abraxas Ardent  copyright 2018
> United States of America
> All Rights Reserved
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> As meals American go, it's humble fare,
> the roasted bird a bargain for one happy sawbuck.
> I'm no chef anyway; home again,
> I rip the plastic off, and tear at it with
> comic frantic fingers, pop the sweet breast meat in and glory
> at the nearly fearful ease of our dining.
> It's as if we're fairy tale princelings,born to savors,
> and weaned on turtle soup with a silver spoon.
> I'm no lugubrious grouch about it, but I reflect
> at each fiftieth feast, or seven hundredth,
> that food and fire and toasty bedded rest
> come to me not for my superbly moral chic,
> but by happy accident, the vagaries
> of fate and lucky seeding in the last generation of our nation's
> boonful middle class. And I'm not a glutton
> or crass about the gills, but humane and mindful and good,
> and primed for a wise and hilarious heaven.
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> "A crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead." --Auden
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