Prized

Nominate the sitting hens
While they cling to a screen wire
Watch them picking with their cut-off bills
Crown he fattest, crown the best
Breeding brooder that contest
In the competition that you give
Let’s play a losing game
Versus the sickness and versus the pain
Versus the butcher again and again
The winning is rated
The bodies were sized
And the winner is … prized
Nominate the perfect egg
And observe its innocence
Like the whiteness of a stillborn child
Crown the fattest, crown the best
Laying layer that contest
In the competition that you give
Let’s play a losing game
Versus the sickness and versus the pain
Versus the butcher again and again
The winning is rated
The bodies were sized
And the winner is … prized
Nominated to die
Prized