Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven


By now we are all a-twitter with the excitement of Thanksgiving in a few days. So, there is not much to say, except that I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and may your Turkey behave!
The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven
by: Jack Prelutsky

The turkey shot out of the oven
and rocketed into the air,
it knocked every plate off the table
and partly demolished a chair.

It ricocheted into a corner
and burst with deafening boom,
then splattered all over the kitchen,
completely obscuring the room.

It stuck to the walls and the windows,
it totally coated the floor,
there was turkey attached to the ceiling,
where there'd never been turkey before.

It blanketed every appliance,
it smeared every saucer and bowl,
there wasn't a way I could stop it,
that turkey was out of control.

I scraped and I scrubbed with displeasure,
and thought with chagrin as I mopped,
that I'd never again stuff a turkey
with popcorn that hadn't been popped.

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Poem retrieved from: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~homespun/tpoems2.html

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