Thanksgiving

The year that
I turned twenty - one,
We watched the 
Macy's Day parade,
while snow blanketed
Kalamazoo.
Cold cans of Miller 
High Life toasted with
garlic butter green
beans.
We baked bazil
roasted turkey breast, 
and laughed like
children at the 
very idea of the two 
of us cooking. 
Digging through
the dishes that 
other Civic Theatre
employees had left
 behind, we 
listened to Sweet Charity,
and the sound of tap 
shoes beating against
a green star.
We were wating for Santa
in a little city almost 
a thousand miles from 
home.
We ended the day as we
started, in puffy sweat 
pants, hair a mess.
No pomp and circumstance.
Just the two of us
listening to the heavy 
flakes fall.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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