A Cruelty

One at a time,
a man took off
the legs of a cricket:
 
in between, 
commanding it 
to jump.

After he'd plucked 
all its legs off,
he decided 

his experiment 
proved the loss of limbs
impaired hearing.

He must never
have heard a field
of them, singing. 

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