So, dear, dear, Ed sent me the following list (my additions from 9 on) re: chicken bones. Oh, to know a poet. My heart may, in fact, burst:
1. If chicken bones were horses then beggars would ride.
2. Life is just a bowl of chicken bones.
3. Get off my chicken bone.
4. A chicken bone in the hand is worth two in the bush.
5. A chicken bone in time saves nine!
6. Alas, poor Chicken Bones I knew him well.
7. Can't see the forest through the chicken bones.
8. A day without chicken bones is like a day without sunshine!
9. A rolling chicken bone gathers no moss.
10. Better to have known a chicken bone and lost than to have never had a chicken bone at all.
11. Chicken bon-a, chicken bon-a, men have named you ...
12. A watched chicken-bone pot never boils.