The Chicken Poem – Andrew Galan

My concept is: Chicken

I SHOULD                HAVE DEFROSTED               THE CHICKEN

BECAUSE WITTY REPARTEE                                IS NOT SOMETHING

I HAVE DONE          OPEN BRACKET FULLSTOP CLOSE BRACKET

I SHOULD

OPEN BRACKET INSERT WITTY COMMENT HERE CLOSE BRACKET

HAVE DEFROSTED

OPEN BRACKET INSERT IN-JOKE HERE CLOSE BRACKET

THE CHICKEN

OPEN BRACKET INSERT WINK HERE:  – WINK! – WINK! CLOSE BRACKET

BECAUSE                 I HAVE NEVER FOUND        MUSIC

BASED AROUND    THE XYLOPHONE                 INTERESTING

OPEN BRACKET FULLSTOP CLOSE BRACKET

I SHOULD

UNLESS

HAVE

THE MUSICIAN

DEFROSTED

IS A HOT

THE CHICKEN

FETISH GIRL

I SHOULD                   HAVE DEFROSTED               THE CHICKEN

With poems in Australian National University journal BLOCK and forthcoming in The Delinquent and Eve’s Harvest, Andrew Galan co-founded Canberra poetry slam BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and experimental performance night SituationXnormaL. He has performed at the Canberra Fringe and Corinbank Festivals and co-hosted the first Poetry Slam and Midnight Bizzaro Poet’s Breakfast at the Majestic during Australia’s 2010 National Folk Festival.