<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355921" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Kitchen Shears Speak</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This division must end.<br>Again I'm forced to amputate<br>the chicken's limb; slit the joint,<br>clip the heart, snip wing from back,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">strip fat from flesh, separate<br>everything from itself. I'm used,<br>thrown down by unknown hands,<br>by cowards who can't bear to do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the constant severing. Open and close!<br>Open and close. I work and never tell.<br>Though mostly made of mouth, I have no voice,<br>no legs. My arms are bent, immobile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pinions gripped by strangers. I fear<br>the grudge things must hold.<br>I slice rose from bush, skin from muscle,<br>head from carrot, root from lettuce,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tail from fish. I break the bone.<br>What if they join against me,<br>uncouple me, throw away one-half,<br>or hide my slashed eye? Or worse,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what if I never die? What I fear<br>most is being caught, then rusted rigid,<br>punished like a prehistoric<br>bird, fossilized, and changed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">into a winged lizard, trapped while clawing<br>air, stuck in stone with open beak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christianne+Balk">Christianne Balk</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355921" data-title="The Kitchen Shears Speak de Christianne Balk" data-description="This division must end. Again I'm forced to amputate the chicken's limb; slit the joint, clip the heart, snip wing from back, strip fat from flesh, separate everything from itself. I'm used, thrown down by unknown hands, by cowards who can't bear..."></div> </div> </div>

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