Frying Pan Park (or, Happy Thanksgiving To You All)

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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2014-11-26 11:21 AM

Frying Pan Park

(or, Happy Thanksgiving to you All!)

My friends . . .

We are gathered here in this annual flocking
which our human wardens
like to think of as a pilgrimage,
a rite of passage,
if you will,
their godliness on display –
believing by sparing a couple of us,
the rest of the flock
will gladly flock
to the stove

to be ovenized –
roasted, baked,
fried, smoked,
cooked and eaten!

I'm here to tell you
They Are Full Of Chicken Poop!

All ten-thousand of us
should lay on the ground
fluttering and kicking,
beating our wings,
moan-screeching
and gasping
like the worst case
of bird-flu
has hit us all.

Strike, I say!
Better to die, en mass,
rather than leave
a single one of us
with the indignity
of survival
while the rest of us
are butchered
and eaten.

That said,
my loved and cherished
family and friends,

I,
from the depths of my
fowl-born soul,
knowing such a thing
will never come to pass,

I volunteer,

Volunteer, I say,

to be the sacrificial bird,
even to be a
Capon
if that's what it takes
to represent those of you
destined to
the Pot!

So lay down your lives
for me,
push me to the front
of the flock,
force me to stand before
the President, to be pardoned,
the representative of my family
forced to grieve for you
the rest of my days
letting humanities hands
caress my feathers
at Frying Pan Park.

I salute you
my friends,

and will remember you well!

~ ~ ~

(1) "President George H.W. Bush in 1989 was the first president to grant a pardon — the turkey in question was sent to, of all places, Frying Pan Park in Herndon, Va., according to a 2011 blog post on the White House website."[/size]

© wesley james beard, jr.
november 25, 2014

Please don't assume everything I write is based on my personal life

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2014-11-26 01:38 PM

What a way to go.

If they give you ruled paper write sideways.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2014-11-26 03:20 PM

Way to go Jimmy! What a great bit of fodder for after Thanksgiving dinner conversations!
Blessings!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2014-11-26 05:03 PM

Dear Jimmy, I really appreciate your empathy with the poor turkeys that surely abhor Thanksgiving and I must say you developed this theme in a very original way.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Margherita

Balladeer

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

4 posted 2014-11-26 06:39 PM

It's about time we heard the turkey's side!

Well done, Jim!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2014-11-26 09:34 PM

Thank you so much my friends, for the words.
I've been thinking maybe the title should have been "Turkey Politics" because all Turkeys are two-legged, aren't they??

And this turkey sure sounds like a lot of Turkeys that are in Politics!

Hug your families for me tomorrow and tell them to hug you back...

Jimmy

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

6 posted 2014-11-27 02:37 AM

Hi JamesW, Having fun with the turkeys? Enjoy the day Best to you, JO

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