“THANKSGIVING AT OUR HOUSE”

We sent out a Thanksgiving Day greeting:

At our house we will be meeting.

There will be an all-day eating,

with relatives knocking at our door.

There will be turkey, ham, and chicken.

Giblets will make the gravy thicken.

Cake batter spoons the kids will be lick’n,

TV football at a roar.

Soon, all in our places,

we’ll be stuffing food into our faces,

cleaning our plates of all traces.

Then we all go back for more.

The minced meat and the pumpkin pies,

will go directly to our thighs.

Bathroom scales will elicit sighs.

We’ll be slender nevermore.

Del Gustafson

Del is a cowboy poet from Nooksack, Washington, with Thanksgiving dreams and a little remaining Halloween Poe nightmare of ravens quothing nevermore.

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