This is a poem by my friend Micheala from Slovakia.

It’s amazing. It’s called “The Thanksgiving Tragedy.”

Enjoy!

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“The Thanksgiving Tragedy”

by Michaela Svecova

A year ago exactly, on this very same day,

a Thanksgiving dinner’s been turned into a gruesome mass grave.

17 family members, a dog and a cat,

all 19 lay stone dead here, plus 4 mice and a rat.

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Mother, father, 5 kids, 2 aunts and all the 8 cousins,

one day happy running around, next day dead by dozens.

In the kitchen the deed’s been done nothing could be crueler,

while pumpkin pies were getting hotter, their bodies got cooler.

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On a day just like all others who could have imagined,

While others prepared sprouts and stuffing, here came the assassin.

No one ever found the culprit but I’ve got my suspicion,

You’d be surprised but cases like these get little attention.

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Early morning the milkman came, all was still as usual,

according to the paperboy everything seemed normal.

When the farmer brought his produce they were all still quite alive,

but by the time the mail man popped in the death had since arrived.

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Nothing could have prevented it, not even a good armour,

from ending like the restaurant scene in the film Godfather!

Someone who once dined in here from the Palermo orchestra

told me the chef cooking here had ties to the Cosa Nostra.

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He wrung the necks of all the turkeys totally unflinchingly,

all of them birds in prime of their life, the whole Gobble family.

The mice ate some poison from traps, then one got eaten by the cat,

as for the dog, he got run over while chasing after the rat.

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Let this be a testimony of all the injustice,

as you carve your turkey tonight you’re too an accomplice!

Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Amish or a Presbyterian,

None of you feel the way I do, I’m a vegetarian!

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Words by Michaela Svecova; Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay