the summer job

he decided to never
eat chicken again,
or eggs.
no egg drop soup
for him. no more,
not since he spent
a sweltering summer
working on a chicken
farm where they packed
them into crates,
strung from the wires
electrocuted them,
then slit their
throats, letting
let the blood
seep out into metal
bins. every day
a million chickens.
every day, all the chicken
he could eat
at lunch,
which became less and less
until none.