Thursday Thanks Day

Unseemly as it is to celebrate

given our stained history and blighted present...

of all the holidays on the calendar,

all those three-day weekends,

Mondays with mattress sales,

dead presidents,  dead soldiers

dead words     stump speeches

myth of manger and arcane mumbles

And in spite of…….

240 million dead turkeys (is that possible?),

how we killed our hosts and never left,

breaking bread with a MAGA guy, 

(no food fight, please),

Black Friday tomorrow madness,

All the lonely people, 
Where do they all …….

Thanks-A-Lot-Day

is the one
where we test our threshold
for two of my favorite sins -
gluttony and sloth,

free of piety     secular, 

inter-tribal   sit down together

second-helping-Day pass the Chardonnay

have a piece of pie      plenitude

abundanza, y’all come-Day,

white and dark     meat

not, I got mine, Day

but Gratitude Day

our happy accident, 
cosmic crap-shoot Day

This lucky life, family as friends,

friends like family,  love out loud.