Monday, November 20, 2017

The Turkey Wattle & Gobbledly-Gobble




"Wattle?"
"You must mean my beauty mark."




THE TURKEY WATTLE


Said the Turtle to the Turkey
Every time he came to visit,
"There's a funny hunk of wrinkle
Where your chin should be, what is it?"

Said the Turkey to the Turtle,
"Oh, this rubber decoration?
Heavens, no, I wouldn't tell you
'Cause it makes for conversation.

At Thanksgiving during dinner-
It's my relative they're carving!-
Silly People sit around and
Stuff themselves as if they're starving,

And you know the only question
They can think of while they visit?
"Say, that funny hunk of wrinkle
Round a Turkey's chin, what is it?!"





GOBBLEDY-GOBBLE


How they laughed!

"He's so scrawny.
Scrawny! Scrawny! they taunt me.
"Not handsome and brawny.
He's ugly as sin."

So, gobbledy-gobble,
I'm not with the mob
because of the shape that I'm in.

"The worst on the block.
A disgrace to the flock."

They're ashamed to admit
they're my kin.

Well, sometimes they hurt
('Twould be nice to be pretty.)
but common sense says,
"You're a winner."

For on Thanksgiving Day
they have all gone away
to be somebody's good-looking dinner.



Turkey Country
A painting by Ryan Kirby
2010 National Wildlife Federation
Stamp Print of the Year














"The Turkey Wattle"
A poem by J. Patrick Lewis
(1985)

"Gobbledy-Gobble"
A poem by Felice Hoffman
(1985)



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