Alan Harris reading
Tavern Talk
by Alan Harris
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Did you ever look deeply into the eye of a chicken? No, you say, they have nothing between their eyes but cartilage, and you laugh at your little joke. Did you ever look deeply into the eye of a chicken? Yes, you say, and it came over and bought me a drink, and you laugh some more. Did you ever look deeply into the eye of a chicken? No, you say, have you? Yes, I have. What did you see? you ask. I saw a light like a little egg-shaped sun, and inside it were countless smaller eggs. It was like touching my eyeball to a live wire, and it lasted for only a split second, but I saw infinity in the eye of a chicken. Yeah, I saw that once in a waitress's eye, you say with a snicker. Same infinity I saw, only I didn't have to leave a tip. |
From the book Splashes and Breezes (1988)
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