Defrosting a chicken

[Poempuzzler]

Any ideas what this poem by Simon Armitage is about?
http://frombooksofpoems.blogspot.com/2006/11/defrosting-chicken-by-simon-armitage.html

[madkill]

Think its about how the media 'exaggerates' what is supposedly News.

[Poempuzzler]

I finally got a media connection to the poem but here do you see the exaggeration angle coming in? What do you think is wrong with the guy in the poem?