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# Who Came First
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/who-came-first/
- Published: 2022-04-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: they had a race: the egg, the chicken the audience's pulse did quicken but in the end the egg did win assisted by its shape and spin the chicken did escape the grill but lost the race -- it was downhill
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

they had a race: the egg, the chicken  
the audience's pulse did quicken  
but in the end the egg did win  
assisted by its shape and spin  
the chicken did escape the grill  
but lost the race -- it was downhill