Please Eat Some Cake! (For Thanksgiving)

[michaelgallatin]

The turkeys among us
are very shaken.
Now there's turkey burgers
and turkey bacon.

They used to be scared
on only one day.
But today they shout,
"C'mon folks, no way!"

"Once you only ate
us on Thanksgiving."
"Now you won't even
let us go on living!"

"From your knives
there's no relief!"
"What ever happened
to where's the beef?"

"When you take that
bottle and pull the cork,
why can't you drink
that wine with pork?"

"Or for something that's
surely finger-lickin',
Colonel Sanders says
to eat a chicken."

"It's bad enough now as
Thanksgiving draws near!"
"Do you know what it's like
to always live in fear?"

"People, it's high time
to give us a break."
"Forget the damn turkey,
please eat some cake!"

Michael "Gobble, Gob, G!" Gallatin

[johan]

Such great birds then turkeys, rather have a nice steak, nice one Michael.

Johan

[michaelgallatin]

And then Andrew, many Americans also eat turkey for Christmas! Poor singled out and greedily consumed bird. But I think you're right mentioning steak because beef is still the meat of choice for most people. And I believe thus also the most often eaten. And I would eat a well done, not fatty, good cut of steak with a decent barbecue sauce. But for me the choice is shrimp all the way! I'll eat them any way they're done though not all that crazy about cold ones in cocktail sauce. Give me shrimp over steak any day!

Take care,
Mike

[purplespirit]

For me it is so interesting to discover other customs and your Thanksgiving meal is something I never had. It sounds yummy though. Our way of Thanksgiving is very different, for we celebrate during the whole harvest month and that means we do have a meal with all the harvested vegetables and even venison, each day another choice. At least once a week we "have to" (it's rather much liked) invite someone to dinner, who him/herself cannot afford or somebody lonely, some forgotten old person etc. Therefore we do not have a particular Thanksgiving meal. I like and enjoy your poem Mike and wish you and yours happy Thanksgiving! Ulla xx

[heart2heart]

Yes I agree that poor turkey needs a break, although they say the meat is healthy for us and we should prefer it to others. :-) Great fun poem Mike, you always cheer us up and that's what we need.
Heart2Heart

[lovepoet]

Back after long time I had real fun your poem Sir, it proves great imagery and fantasy, thanx.

[michaelgallatin]

;D Hello my friends! Glad you all got a laugh from this. Oh and, uh, how about shrimp for Thanksgiving!

Take care,
Mike