Thanksgiving 2022

A poem composed for the great American parading holiday, with a delightfully the misheard subtitle: Salmonella on the Pillow

The parade is a yearly charade

That most always misses the point

With pitch-corrected country and

Black singers high on floats

Contained

Every Broadway excerpt

Is from a runaway hit

And I’m amazed

That I was unaware

That somewhere more

Than a dozen men have spent

Their last young decade in

The mastery of tap, tap dancing

The commercials seem to assume

That this is a real cancer crowd

And HIV can be made undetectable

With fewer pills, and wow

Spongebob is mentioned

Every four seconds

On social media

I’ve had my cinnamon bread

And a Schnauzer has stolen

My seat yet again so

I’m almost feeling ok

Though turkey

Is out this year

To save my guts and just

Like clockwork

Channel 4 has begun to pixelate