Breaking Yoke

We placed Humpty Dumpty in a pan filled with water.
We then placed the pan over a fire until the water grew hotter.
Humpty pleaded and screamed in fear until our faces soured.
The EGG deserved to die.
The execrable coward!

In the now silence we finished the boil.
We then placed the cured egg to cool from our toil.
But none of us kings men could any longer wait,
So we grasped and cracked open the shell;
And, of course,
we ate.








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