Laying in bed waiting for the kid to fall asleep,

Start thinking about a chicken

Being carried away by a hawk

The chicken doesn't have language

Just whatever raw emotion matches "ow fuck shit aaggh!"

The chicken doesn't know that death in impending

Just terror, in whatever way a chicken experiences terror

Then the chicken is dropped into a hawk's nest

With 3 hungry fledglings

That tear it apart piece by piece

Slowly enough, that the chicken doesn't die, for maybe quite some time

Are humans lucky

because we'd have the ability to put words to this experience

or is the chicken lucky because it has only a bird brain and cannot think?

GN