"The Man With The Chicken" (by Mitch Sisskind)

They called him the man with the chicken

And he rode the Halsted Street bus, this

Man they called the man with the chicken

Did.

On a chain round his neck hung an

Alarm clock, on his head a hat made

Of cigarette boxes, from his thin

Waist

A cap pistol dangled, on his feet he

Wore scuba diving flippers. This was

The man they called the man with the

Chicken.

Few funds had he but the chicken

Brought in some coins by plunging

Its head into a cracked shot glass of

Whiskey

For the amusement of onlookers and

Over time he acquired quite a little

Following, this man they called the man

With

The chicken! Wordsworth had his

Old leach gatherer but here was

A real meshuganah too, boys! Aye,

'Twas!