let them eat... gravel!

for anyone with
young children
you will be used
to the plethora
of books out there
educating us about
really useful things
to know in life that
may come in handy
one fine day...
you know those
books about
cars, trucks, diggers,
emergency vehicles,
animals, farms, zoos
just to name a few...

well they must certainly work
because i have been influenced by those
farm books -
every time i come across
bits and pieces of gravel
i become possessed
by the strange notion
that the gravel is
actually chicken feed
and so i must,
like the good farmer,
scoop out handfuls
and fling them about
to the
(only visible to my eyes)
starving chickens

be they at the side of the footpath, along the road or even in the river...!