![]() ![]() If you think of a plenipotentiary Middle East ruler such as a sheik, sultan, or emir, I’m sure you have the word “harem” floating around in the back of your mind.Īs commonly espoused in our more fanciful literature, a harem is where a bevy of beauties are locked up in what is essentially a gilded cage for the sole pleasure of the ruler. Roosters are feisty, testosterone-driven, no-nonsense characters who rule their roost with an iron hand, well, claw, I suppose is the right word. “King” of the Roost, aka, “Rooster”Ĭhicken is a non-gendered term that refers to male and female chickens, but “rooster” refers only to male chickens. A hen is a female chicken.Ĭhicks are young chickens. Roosters and cocks are male chickens, but roosters are sexually mature, while cocks are sexually immature. “Chicken”?Ĭhicken refers to a species of bird and any adult member of that species, male or female. What Is The Difference Between “Rooster” vs. It is, therefore, of little surprise that we are unfamiliar with various terms for the bird, words with which any country-living individual would be as familiar as a city-dweller with, er… city stuff. “All they ever see are chicken parts in the freezer or on a plate.”Īs weird as that may seem to anyone who, like me, was brought up in a relatively rural area with plenty of experience of various farm animals and lots of wildlife (I guess a privileged upbringing in its own way), the only experience many folks have of this popular fowl is gastronomic. “Lots of these youngsters have never seen a real-life chicken before,” she explained. Luckily, a zoo staff member stood nearby, watching me as intently as I looked at the exhibit. The obligatory wire fence surrounded it, and inside were some chickens, as confirmed by a sign which said, “Chickens.”įor a minute or two, I tried my darndest to figure out the joke (we all know about British humor, right □), but I didn’t get it. Still, it was many years ago–nearly two decades now–so maybe things have changed.Īnyway, I was at London Zoo and came across a curious pen. I was somewhat disappointed, as not only was it much like other zoos but, also considerably smaller than I’d imagined.įor some reason, I’d expected great things from a place called “London Zoo,” but nope, not sure the juice was worth the squeeze, as they say. chicken? Many years ago, as I traveled in the land of the Brits, or as you might more commonly know the place, Britain, I visited London Zoo. Bless William Trowbridge for giving us someone to blame! I love it.What is the difference between rooster vs. Charming, funny, irreverent, and a bit snarky, Fool ends up taking over for God, who’s taken “early retirement / to an unlisted galaxy where He plays golf // and watches Lamp Unto My Feet reruns.” Fool doesn’t do too bad a job of it either, concentrating on “April showers that bring May flowers,” but he does miss a lot-floods, famines, and assorted miseries. ![]() William Trowbridge’s latest collection, Call Me Fool, is a trip through time from before history to after now. Charles Harper Webb, author of A Million MFAs Are Not Enough Stand with me, readers, and bellow, “I am Fool.” He proves again that he is one of America’s best and wittiest poets: funny, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to live, cream pie in the face, pants falling down, as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful world. In his latest collection, Call Me Fool, William Trowbridge proves that you can’t keep a good Fool down. Trowbridge thought he was through with his not-so-distant relative after his collection came out, but the Fool is back again, none the wiser. Chrysostom put it, “he who gets slapped.” Trowbridge’s Fool, after blundering into hell with Lucifer and company, is reincarnated in various historical times, with occasional unplanned visits back to the heavenly realm, operated as a mega corporation by its Enron-style CEO. He is combination schlemiel and shlimazel, alternately the spiller and the spilled-on. Trowbridge’s Fool is based on an archetype that runs from the beginnings of storytelling up to modern films (silent and sound), fiction, poetry, and stand-up comedy. Call Me Fool concerns the misadventures of a character ![]()
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