James Edward Lee Sr. Poet Free verse

Dirty Dishes-

At the kitchen table 
Eating all the gravy 
This gets complicated and messy 
Cornbread and turkey 
Ham and chicken
Grand man chosen 
Is beholden smorgasbord 
Stop eating 
Look at these dishes 
Everyone's eating who's going to clean all these 
Dirty dishes 
Papa smoking a pipe 
Reading a newspaper 
Trying to understand all the hype 
yeah all the hype 
While still at the kitchen table
People still greasing their faces 
Overeating diabetics 
Pork and Italian sausages 
and fat back and slime 
And all that 
No one's taking time 
To just get one more plate 
At the kitchen table 
Eating all the biscuits gravy 
Cornbread ham and turkey
 Grand man chosen 
is beholden 
Smokers board 
Stop eating look at those dishes 
Everyone's eating who's going to clean 
All these Dirty Dishes

4/27/15
Written words by Ja'Maz Semaj Drawer Rseel ©2015, 2020
From anthology "UNCKLE JA'MAZ"

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Constance La France October 7, 2020 at 8:03 AM James, interesting poem, reminds me of some of our past family feasts, sadly this thanksgiving in Canada there will be no feasts or dishes due to Covid 19 restrictions,( Ontario, Canada is a hot spot) we are hoping for Christmas, wouldn't be awful if Christmas got cancelled this year too _Constance