You’d think when you randomly google “chicken” you’d come up with good news, so direly needed at the end of this week. After all, a certain vice-presidential candidate claimed that his two kids eat 14 eggs every morning and then complained about the price of eggs being $4 a dozen, directly contradicted ($2.99) by the display he stood in front of while being filmed at a store in Pennsylvania. Hard to decide which of these two pieces of information is more out of touch with reality, but the latter was laid at the foot of the current administration, once again falsely blaming them.

So, chicken news. Here are literally the first 4 headlines that came up in a Google search:

Chickens lack the most basic legal protection.

Chickens are the most populous bird on Earth and are widely considered among the most abused animals on the planet. Despite their ability to think and feel, billions of chickens are raised and killed for food each year and subjected to some of the worst living and slaughter conditions imaginable to meet the increasing demand for meat worldwide.

I stopped reading after this. Remember, we want good news.

Do backyard chickens save you money?

In case you wondered, they don’t.

Truck traveling in Oklahoma loses chicken over a mile

What can I say. They sent troopers in to wrangle chickens on I-44….

Chickens attack tourists walking along pavement

Maybe that is the good news?

I give up. Enjoy your weekend, have brunch eating eggs Benedict, if you like them. I’ll go and see if I can find a red wheelbarrow to photograph. Maybe good thoughts will appear while staring at a “thing” rather than the news reports. After all, the poet linked below had a famous maxim, “No ideas but in things.”

The Red Wheelbarrow

So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

“So much depends upon “? What is referred to? Maybe my sanity depends on it – here is a red bench. Red wheelbarrow next…

Music today is Jaco Pastorius and friends celebrating Chicken.