"You can't make a hen wear shoes" (poem off of a prompt)

I love to buy craft books, but I'm not always so great about using them. Today I decided to dip into a book I bought a while back: The Practice of Poetry, edited by Robin Behn and Chase Twichell. The subtitle is "Writing exercises from poets who teach."

Today I flipped to an exercise called "Intelligence Test" by Alberta Turner. She writes:

Answer the following questions from a hypothetical intelligence test by picking out all the most wrong answers. Select several you wish were true. Make those into a poem.

The two questions I chose were:

Can you (toss, advise, bounce, inflate, tolerate) a balloon?

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What can you do with a hen? (teach it to answer the phone, eat it, teach it to make soup, sell it a lottery ticket, make it wear shoes, make it tell the truth?)

Here's what I came up with!