Thursday, November 22, 2012

If Turkeys Thought

One of my favorite Jack Prelutsky poems from his It's Thanksgiving book (1982).  It has some pointed implications for human exceptionalism - tough luck PETA.

If turkeys thought, they'd run away
a week before Thanksgiving Day,
but turkeys can't anticipate,
and so there's turkey on my plate.

2 comments:

Michael said...

But ask any deer hunter in NH and they will tell you that the deer disappear in November!

Sponge-headed ScienceMan said...

Maybe deer are more human-like. Is that why I call my spouse "deer" ? Err, "dear"?