A Fable

fictis jocare nos memenerit fabulis. 

—Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiarum, I, Prol., 6.*

Chicken Little’s Coop

Hens wanted to ban
powered works of evil man.
Thus the leader’s plan:

after putting locks,
by force, on each chicken’s box,
give keys to the fox.

The hen-houses applaud
their dear leader’s pricey fraud.
Let foxes maraud.

*  “Remember that I ever joke about some non-existing folk.”