Thomas Turkey's Lament

Thomas Turkey is trying to avoid the dreaded chopping block! He's trying to become inconspicuous amongst the teeming flock! As you thank the Good Lord this year for your many blessings, Nothing would taste sweeter than Peking duck with your dressings! Kith and kin, may I recommend, might prefer a roast of beef. Surely, that would save my friends and me a whole heap o' grief! Goose, roasted tender and brown, you might consider for your fare. Instead of turkey to grace your board, how about some wild hare! Vanity, the haughty eagles's trait, which I think is so absurd, Is what won it the honor of being selected for the national bird! Now, 'tis well known that Mr. Franklin wanted us for that role. Good try, Ben my boy! May God bless your thoughtful soul! During the Thanksgiving Season I'm finding it so hard to relax, As I scurry about to and fro trying to elude that fearsome axe! You'd be dining on roasted eagle for Thanksgiving if Ben had had his way! Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired © All Rights Reserved Placed No. 7 in Dane Ann Smith-Johnson's "Thanksgiving Day" Contest - Dec 2010