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Please Don’t Feed the Chickens

Please Don’t Feed the Chickens

There‘s no free meals in the city

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Bob Metivier
Sep 08, 2023
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Rooster in Ybor — Image by Author


You know
priorities
always play out for you,
now what‘s a poor boy gonna do
these days?

These days
you can’t resist,
you’re gotta break the rule:
“Please don’t feed the chickens”,
they say.

They say, 
“Homeless people,
stop your free-loading ways!
You’re not getting by me this time,
no way!”

“No way,
work for your pay,
quit your low-lyin…

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