Happy Thanksgiving

Call it dressing or stuffing, it tastes best when it’s cooked inside the turkey.

How much are you able to shove in

A turkey?  Can you get enough in

The bird’s cavity

For two helpings or three

So your guests make a verb out of stuffin'?

Harvest celebrations are ancient.  Thanksgiving became a national holiday by a declaration of Abraham Lincoln.  And before that?

Did the Natives sit down with the Pilgrims

To say grace, share food, and sing hymns?

It was so long ago,

That we’ll never know

But mythology grows as truth dims.

Quality, Quantity or Connections?

Last week the NY Times ran a story about some young poets who posted their poetry on line and had become very popular and sold more books than some highly regarded ‘print only’ poets.

On the web these poets found glory

The Times just published their story

They’ve achieved fame

I’ve been trying the same

But I’m deep in obscure territory.

Is their poetry better, did they write more of it, did they pick a better on line forum, or did they find an influential person to promote their work?  Any, or all of those are possible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/business/media/web-poets-society-new-breed-succeeds-in-taking-verse-viral.html

So, who is Khloe Kardashian?

Why is she an arbiter of fashion?

She’s someone you see

If you turn on TV

When the network has something that’s trashy on.

Sunday Mourning

It’s not just the horror in Paris, it’s Nairobi, Beirut, Baghdad, Syria ….  

The Bible says “thou shalt not kill”

But people say “Oh yes we will”

Mankind has warred

And claimed that their Lord

Has a Mission that they must fulfill.

It’s Time to Pierce the Corporate Veil

Remember when all those ‘scientists’ working for big tobacco companies denied the link between smoking and lung cancer?  What part of deja vu don’t you understand?

Exxon scientists, we hear, will admit

CO2 is affecting our climate

They concocted a story

(It’s Obfuscatory)

Claiming that link illegit.

Meanwhile engineers at VW were thinking ‘outside the box’, well really, inside the little black box computer, which they taught how to cheat on emissions tests.

Their diesel emissions were high

They had one last idea to try

A simple solution

Ignore the pollution

And teach the computer to lie.

Drag and Drop

I misheard an ad Tuesday night

It scared me but gave me insight

My misinterpretation

Inspired imagination

And explains why we see Northern Lights.

The ad boasted of its drag 'n drop convenience, but I know they meant Dragon Drop...

They touted their drag ’n drop software

Which gave me a bone chilling scare

One simple keystroke

And the sky fills with smoke

And attack dragons fall through the air!