Friday, November 19, 2021

Thanksgiving Dinner at the Children's Table - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Thanksgiving Dinner at the Children’s Table

 

Thanksgiving is Christmas without any toys

And you get stuck at the children’s table

For more years than is strictly necessary

Because some extra old people show up

 

The uncle who has a diagnosis story

For every course, including the pies and cakes

Another helping of irritable bowel syndrome?

And the auntie who tries to hush him up

 

The cute second cousin you never met before

She’s your age but gets to sit at the Big Table

 

(And after her first glance she never looks

                   at you again)

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