The
Turkey
That escaped
This thanksgiving
Wanting more living
Had fled in November
In hope he would remember
The route with the fastest vessel
To Britain where Christmas was special
On the day of his divorce
He put a bet upon a horse
And when it lost he bet again
And then he walked home in the rain
No-one asked, ‘How much d’ya lose?’
He didn’t wipe his muddy shoes
And no-one moaned and no-one groaned
And no-one said you shoulda phoned
In the morning no-one said
Don’t forget to make the bed
Or asked him at the crack of dawn
When you gonna mow the lawn
He didn’t vacuum, didn’t dust
And how he grinned when no-one fussed
He never liked Do-It-Yourself
But now he needn’t fix that shelf
He got some food inside his belly
Put his feet up, watched some telly
Guessing it was getting late
Grabbed a beer and called a mate
His ‘Echo’ bought from Amazon
He wondered if she’d left it on
He said, Alexa, what time is it
‘She’ said…
Time you washed up, fixed the fence and paid your mum a visit
[Inspired by my recent purchase of an Amazon Echo and my accidental
discovery that she does jokes. Try saying… Alexa, make me a sandwich (apparently it’s well documented on YouTube but I found out by pure chance)]
I think that it's fantastic
When my wife start's to cook,
She gets out all her pots and pans
And MY brand new cookery book.
She starts to peel some potatoes
Then she gets some liquid out.
As I look on in wonder,
At what it's all about.
She then chops up the potatoes
And drops them in the pan.
I don't know what she is doing,
After all, I'm just a man.
At last she shouts it's ready,
She says she's made my tea.
She's sat there eating a takeaway,
And it's a plate of chips for me.
Sizzling technology fried up dark and crisp like bacon
Not the way i like it with sunny side up eggs
Driving me mad with its peculiar nuances
And its changing ways, almost sinister
A cape of confusion too crisp on the outlying whites
The rooster crows, pounding its chest, so proud
But the defeated farmer runs to the barn to diminish the flames
Kim Rodrigues © 2017
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