t h e  r e t u r n 
o f  c h i c k e n  l e g s

A year of jogging
hasn't done anything significant
for your paper-white chicken legs.
Best you keep 'em twigs 
in a pair of jogging pants
when you run around the campus
at the crack of dawn
or play basketball with your dinky friends,
so that the rest of the living world
can stop laughing because it hurts already.
A year hasn't changed anything at all.
I still have better legs than you do.
Maybe next year.
We'll see.

coin toss | freak
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