Hi Fellow LitNetters! When I checked in much earlier today, I saw a message on top of the screen page asking me to post something. I thought of two items, a ditty and a story, which would have been appropriate this past weekend, but any way you look at 'em, they're not exactly "fresh," having been posted here way back in ought Seven, a whole decade ago! But here you go:
Feast de Resistance
by Aunt Shecky
Working the holiday, the librarian kept on living
by ordering a 1-800-TAKEOUT Thanksgiving.
Verily, folios and festivity ne'er mix well:
Slipping on a magazine, she – and the food – fell.
Farewell all things chewy!
Adieu, alas the wine!
For she took out a whole shelf of Dewey:
800 through 899.
Though featherless and roasted, the bird went flyin'
through the spines of two Brownings and one Byron.
All Conrad's tales of the British navy
sailed on a sea of giblet gray.
The Roman Empire's down for the count: put a bib on!
Dribble, dribble, Mr. Gibbon.
John Ruskin? Full of stuffin'.
Hard to tell the sweet potato from the yam
from the orange globs spotting pages of Lamb.
A creamed (in more ways than one) onion
stemmed the progress of pilgrim Bunyan.
John Ashberry? Bogged down with cranberry.
And Dylan Thomas is again on the sauce.
Forget pie. All the pumpkin's on the Frost!
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