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Thanksgiving Poem: Nervous Turkey

In celebration of Thanksgiving we present a silly poem by William Wadsworth Shortfellow: Please enjoy.

                                                  Nervous Turkeys

I went to the book store to buy a book about beef jerky

It is there that I met the nervous turkeys

 Help  us to escape,they desperately pleaded

 Keep our family together,we all are needed

I don't want to die,the smallest one cried

Last year,they invited us for pumpkin pie,

Then they shot my father in the eye

I swept up the baby,bought some potatoes and gravy

And quickly checked out of the store

But I couldn't cook it,cause of the way that it look-it

All sad and trembling with fear

I looked at the turkey and suddenly realized that this bird was totally queer

No gay bird will I ever serve.My family and I do not deserve

So I tore out its gizzards,stuffed it with books about lizzards

And left it to die on the curb

I was in a fog, working on my book blog

But to my surprise the turkey did rise 

Looked into my eyes ,as he flew to the sky

And asked me to tell the book blog family "Good Bye"

 

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)

Jules Verne was a French writer with an extraordinary vision of the future.  He published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863.  The first of his "extraordinary adventures" series.  Other novels include Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864, From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873.

When not living in France, Verne and his wife spent much time sailing on his ship the Saint-Michel.

In 1876 he sailed around Europe and his adventures in sailing to numerous ports in Europe provided much fodder for his short stories and novels.  The final novel prior to his death in 1905 was The Invasion of the Sea.

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John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright.  Notable works include The Forsyth Saga (1906 - 1921) and it's sequels, A modern Comedy and End of the Chapter.  He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. These books, as with many of his other works, dealt with social issues including Class and moral Codes.

Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet.  Beckett's work is stark and fundamentally minimalist and is sometimes considered one of the first post modernists.  Beckett was an assistant to James Joyce and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

James Augustine Alogsius Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.  He is best known for his novel Ulusses in 1922, and it's highly controversial successor novel Finnegans Wake in 1939.  Among others, the short story collection, Dubliners in 1914 and the semi-autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916.

C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis was an Irish writer and scholar whose diverse works include essays on Christianity and fiction relating to the fight between good and evil.  Examples of Lewis's allegorical fiction include The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings.

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.  In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as characterizations of modern working women.

As early as 1916, Lewis began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life.

Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street which was published on

October 23, 1920.  Based on sales of his prior books, the most optimistic projection was a sale of

25,000 copies.  In the first six months of 1921 alone, Main Street sold 180,000 copies, and within a few

years were estimated at two million. Main Street earned Sinclair Lewis about three million current dollars.

He followed up this great success with Babbitt in 1922, a novel that satirized the American commercial

culture . The story was set in the fictional Zenith, Winnemac, a setting Lewis would

return to in future novels.

His success in the 1920s continued with Arrowsmith in 1925, a novel about an idealistic doctor which

was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused).  The controversial Elmer Gantry in 1927, which

exposed the hypocrisy of hysterical evangelicalism, was denounced by religious leaders and was banned

in some U.S. cities. 

 Lewis closed out the decade with Dodsworth in 1929, a novel about the most affluent and successful members of American society leading essentially pointless lives in spite of their great wealth and advantages.