Let’s pretend this all started
with the comment
about the damn eggs.
The price of eggs these days!
Can that really just be inflation?
Turns out that demand is up
and supply, blame it on
the avian flu, is down.
Maybe the banks
conspired with
the insurance companies
to squeeze
another thirty cents
from every dozen
we buy.
Are they selling the farmers
coverage for cracked eggs?
Maybe this electric
trip wire of insecurity
has nothing to do with eggs
at all, but a harbinger
of disease or worse.
Let’s imagine it is not
I’m feeling lost,
lacking in clear direction,
as Jerry so sweetly
sang to Althea.
It’s true…
The economy is certainly a stressor.
Crazy world we are living in…
Time to buy some chickens.
Eggciting!
Eggcelent.
Cold weather affects chickens laying eggs too. Brilliant read yet again. Trips along very, very insightfully nicely. All the best.