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Looking for a good poem
to give everyone on Thanksgiving
a poem without the word
blessings without too many
incantations a poem that is
unexpected but does not say
I am Grateful For This
does not use any of the words
I especially dislike
empowered especially
I do not want an empowered poem
but I want a poem that is grateful
for more or less everything
even cold weather
and neighbors who have never
even once said hello
who knows why and all the people
in Hannafords Supermarket
making decisions about Thanksgiving
yams or sweet potatoes
delicious canned cranberry sauce
with berries or without
all the people who do
and don’t like poems.
Dear Irwin, You wrote a poem (!!!) xxx
Thanks for sparing us all the self-conscious
Strained arrogance for an articulated THANKS.
Thanks is best when field deeply, quietly, intrinsically.
The way I feel about this poem...