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Wednesday, December 04, 2002 Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off 
Apparently this is a true story, though I'm pretty skeptical. In 1945, Mike the Chicken had his head cut off but still lived lived for 18 months, even gaining 6 pounds. Every May a festival is held to commemorate the crazy chicken. Lol. Welcome to Fruita, Colorado. (Aren't you glad you don't live there?) I listened and heard the farmer say, "We'll have this fowl for lunch today." Thought I, "There won't be nothin' doin' I just can't see myself a stewin'." But he took the axe and chopped off my head Then threw me down and left me for dead. There on the ground for a moment I lay Then I arose and walked away! Said farmer Lloyd to his kindly wife, "That's the strangest thing I've seen in my life." Said the kindly wife to her farmer man, "I can't put him in the frying pan-- A fowl that hates so much to die-- There must be some good reason why, And since he wants so much to live Every living chance to him we'll give." Through my esophagus they feed me corn, They give me drink and keep me warm. I'm well and happy as can be. I stand around for folks to see. Although I haven't got a head-- I'm better off than if I'm dead! --Arba A. Gleen, 1945 ^ Top | 1:05 AM | | | 
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