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Thanksgiving is Awful.
(written while in junior high)
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Thanksgiving is awful
It should be unlawful.
I’ll tell you some reasons why:
You try to be good
And eat all your food;
But then comes the pumpkin pie…
As you finish the crust
You begin to bust
And run to another room.
Your stomach’ll feel better
If only you’ll let’er
Get rid of it really soon…
But then you remember
The Alka Seltzer
And hurriedly gulp some down.
Rejoining the table
(With stomach unstable)
You hear an unearthly sound…
You then see your brother
Who’s trying to smother
All that is coming up.
All that he ate
Just could not wait…
And so he just plain threw up.
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by > Roamoff
composed 1970.
submitted 01 Apr 2006.
Copyright © 1970 by Roamoff.
Thanksgiving is Awful.
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This poem was written in response to an eighth grade teacher's challenge. He told us to go home and write a "sweet little four-line poem about Thanksgiving". I always liked to put teachers into difficult situations and I really didn't like Thanksgiving that much, so I wrote this poem. Of course my co-students complained that I had not followed directions, but the teacher was forced to explain why I got an "A" anyway.
I apologize for its imperfect meter. I didn't understand the concept at the time. I think it is pretty good for someone that age.
A local paper published this poem in 1970.
I wrote a poem many years later patterned after this one (after I understood the concept of meter). See " > Redemption: A Typical Christmas Morning".
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