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From: "Helen Dynda" <olddad66@runestone.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:00 PM
Subject: Happy Thanksgiving...
> When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
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> My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop,
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> Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
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> And he told me there was something that I had to know;
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> His look and his tone I will always remember,
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> When he told me of the horrors of...Black November;
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> "Come about August, now listen to me,
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> Each day you'll get six meals instead of just three,
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> "And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin,
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> And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin;
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> "And then one morning, when you're warm in your bed,
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> In'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head;
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> "Then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald 'n pink,
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> And scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink;
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> "And then comes the worst part" he said not bluffing,
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> "She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing".
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> Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
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> I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
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> And decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked,
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> I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked;
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> I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
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> High-roughage salads, juice and diet cola;
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> And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
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> I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes;
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> I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
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> And tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed;
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> But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
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> As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death;
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> And sure enough when Black November rolled around,
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> I was the last turkey left in the entire compound;
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> So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap;
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> I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap;
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> She held me today, while sewing and humming,
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> And smiled at me and said: "Christmas is coming..."
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> Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!!!
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