The Real Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving we gather
To ignore what they did to each other.
This year, I'm sick.
It's just a cold
--cough cough--
But it was worse for them.
Death by smallpox, maybe by musket or sword.
It's 'nice' to think we get along.
Watch me eat the cranberries:
Chew it like mush,
The way some people seek freedom
By devouring that of others.
I don't look mixed,
Just white (or maybe just Irish)
But I am a complex variation
Of English subjugating
Everything else that makes me.
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3 Comments
Post a CommentInteresting and enlightening perspective.
Tara, very profound!
Great work!