Happy Thanksgiving from Readlarrypowell.com – we issue this greeting around the worldwide web because, even though every nation isn’t celebrating the American holiday, there are Americans everywhere and it is in their hearts.
Our best to each of you all, dear Readers, and may, at the end of the day, you find a thankfulness in your heart accompanied by a newfound and immense happiness. A happy planet gets along.
Our official corporate Message of Thanksgiving comes in the form of a nostalgic poem from Readlarrypowell.com’s spokespup Inky, the Cocker Laureate of the State of Texas and our staff impersonator. (We’re showing his impression of the great American silent film star Buster Keaton today. Uncanny, eh?)
Inky presents to us a poem of memories of life with siblings and cousins and family – it also evokes a later era when adults gather with people who are kin only by shared happy attitudes and grateful nature.Here Inky gives us his impression of a Pilgrim rushing into the Plymouth Rock Emporium & Cafe and spotting a big steaming platter of Mom’s Mayflower Meatloaf with side dishes of Squanto Squash and John Smith’s Hatchet Mashed Pocahontas Potatos. (We mix eras there, but the Plymouth Rock E&C is not a strict constructionist at Thanksgiving.)
In honor of the continent’s first actual Thanksgiving in 1598 at El Paso, Texas, the Plymouth Rock serves flagons of Beat You to the Punch and, in a mix of American cultures, sugar-sprinkled Fortune Sopapillas. We have one here today and the fortune inside reads “You will eat one more bite than necessary.”
And now, Inky’s Thanksgiving poem titled A Day With Leftovers:
Pilgrims and cranberries
and stuffing galore
conversations with relatives
who – surprise! – aren’t a bore
Calm rules the great gathering!
People who appear to be stable
Keep all their surprises
To what’s tasty on the table
Something chewy in the potatoes,
an odd taste in the gravy
and something you drank
makes everything wavy
The kids in the room
giggle at their pranks
For those fun memories
we offer our thanks.
The preceding poem provided by Readlarrypowell.com staff impersonator Inky, the Cocker Laureate of the State of Texas, as permitted in perpetuity by the Pilgrim Cocker Appointment & Acknowledgement Act of 1621.
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