I have to ask, but is this a reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson?

And if not, is this a joke about the owners who wonder where Waldo is? :P

Now, if we look back over your poetry from this period of time when you collate all of it for a post-challenge book, I'd call this era "The Hanging Couplet Era" or "The Non-Sequitur Era."

Is there actually a good reason that this poem is not 5 lines and then 3?
Is there an attempt to make it seem a bit more absurd, a bit more unclear, by way of leaving lines hanging?
Tying the fate of the chicken to the now-comfort of a dog who once knew home?

I like painting images in poems, but it should lead somewhere.

Though I see the way it's been inspired by @lazarus-wist, but really, this feels a bit phoned in.

(And you know I say these things because I care. If I didn't, I'd have said nothing.)