Cover art for Chicken-Licken by Maya Angelou

Chicken-Licken

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Chicken-Licken Lyrics

She was afraid of men,
sin and the humors
of the night.
When she saw a bed
locks clicked
in her brain
.

She screwed a frown
around and plugged
it in the keyhole.
Put a chain across
her door and closed

Her bones were found
round thirty years later
when they razed
her building to
put up a parking lot.

Autopsy read:
dead of acute peoplelessness.

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