Sherry Chandler » 2005 » November » 24
Lexington’s own David Cazden’s poem, “Moving Picture,” is featured on Verse Daily today. Check it out.
The poem is from Dave’s new collection by the same name, out from Word Press.
It’s a great collection. Another of the ones I’ve been trying to find time to review here.
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Sarah Bache, 1784
Went out to milk and I didn’t know how,
I milked the goat instead of a cow;
A monkey sittin’ on a pile of straw
A-winkin’ at his mother-in-law.
Turkey in the straw, turkey in the hay,
Roll ‘em up and twist ‘em up a high tuckahaw,
And hit ‘em up a tune called Turkey in the Straw.
— American folksong (though I’ve seldom ever heard the lyrics)
Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought:
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.
— William Dean Howells, A Thanksgiving
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