Poetry for the Chicken and the Egg

What came first

The chicken or the egg

Or was it a platypus

With a wooden leg

Or maybe a huge dinosaur

Or a Roy Rogers

On his horse

Although it could have been an Alien

Who sort of got blown off course?

Or was it an Eagle

Sitting on its nest

Chewing on an Antelope

And knitting a string vest

Or it could have been a fish

Swimming in the sea

Then again on the other hand

It could have been a bee

Or it could have been something Large

Like an elephant or a whale

I think this question is a bit like

Hunting for the Holy Grail.

I mean it could have been the chicken

It could have been the egg

Or Long John Silver

Who emerged from his treasure Chest

Shouting . . . Shiver me timbers. . .HAR HAR HAR

As part of his pirate test

Or a small strange creature

No one has seen before

Which after hopping in a circle

Runs out of the kitchen door

Or maybe it was a tortoise

Which managed to beat the hare?

To a place that is not here

But might be over there

Or it might have been an ant

Using cunning, stealth and guile

Although now I come to think of it

I have not seen any ants

In a while

Or it might have been the ancient Greeks

Who were clever chaps you know

They invented the thermometer

And the garden hoe

Actually that is not entirely true

But they were very keen

On chickens and eggs

But which came first I really wish I knew.