STUFFED With Irony
Including sliced hypocrisy
Chopped up reality
Diced dichotomy
Shredded humanity
With broken bread
Toasted
Combined together and
Jammed up in the
Eagle’s carcass
As “Thanksgiving” approaches
Along with the “Caravan”
Homeless, country less
Weaponless, partly shoeless
“What” an invasion?
What “timing”
Even with a distant
Not so distanced reminder
“Give me your tired,
your poor,
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse
of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
– “Statue of “”Liberty”” poem.
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Will it be served warm
To the new guests
Or like unwarranted
Revenge
Served cold, or
Discarded out of spite
By an uncompassionate
Angry racisct narcissistic
Xenophobic
Head chef
You know what I wonder?
I wonder W T F W J D?
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Thanksgiving :
Celebrating the day, Americans fed undocumented aliens from Europe
– Facebook meme
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This land is not your land
This land is not my land
It was stolen from
The Mexican and Indian
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From the burnt down forest
To the oil slick water
This land was decimated
By you and me
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White people, when you landed on Plymouth Rock……….
You did not have a visa.”
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– Carlos Mencia
Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter in which he disapproves of the country adopting the bald eagle as our national symbol. He claims that the drawing that had been produced looked like a turkey anyway and that such a bird would actually be preferable to the eagle.
Franklin explained that the bald eagle had a “bad moral character” and was a “rank coward” that merely steals from other birds.
About the turkey, Franklin wrote that in comparison to the bald eagle, the turkey is “a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America…He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage.”
So although Benjamin Franklin defended the honor of the turkey against the bald eagle, he did not propose its becoming one of America’s most important symbols.
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Oh yeah.
Happy Thanksgiving