{"id":264760,"date":"2017-11-20T06:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264760"},"modified":"2017-11-20T06:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:02:07","slug":"lets-talk-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-talk-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A WILD TURKEY QUARTET<\/p>\n<p>The Turkey Asks, Please<\/strong><br \/>\nThe turkey asks, please first give me another chance<br \/>\ngive me a chance to eat, give me a chance to gobble<br \/>\nlike you plan to do, and find some low bush cranberries<br \/>\nand some dropped apples on the ground, the power you<br \/>\nhave is fine, give me the chance to eat before you dine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Turkey Pardon Me<\/strong><br \/>\nThe way that turkey flew and gob gobbled as it ran<br \/>\ngave me a different view and changed my hunting plan<br \/>\nit gave unto my head a serious change of mood<br \/>\nso instead of cold and dead I will not shoot the dude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moist and Tender<\/strong><br \/>\nMoist and tender stays the turkey breast<br \/>\ntom turkeys wait for carving and to be dressed<br \/>\nthe soup not greasy gravy with fresh giblets<br \/>\nturkey stuffing made with oysters and niblets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey\u2019s Noodle<\/strong><br \/>\nTurkey wishbone wild almost gone<br \/>\nas Thanksgiving must next day at dawn<br \/>\na soup of peas a loaf of seeded rye<br \/>\ntomorrows soup turkey noodle<br \/>\nhot corn bread and apple streusel<br \/>\nfresh whipped cream and cold pumpkin pie.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>From Great Pie to Grilled Octopi<\/strong><br \/>\nMy mouth waters when I can smell an apple rhubarb pie<br \/>\nso it was when I a child so is it now when I am wider<br \/>\nso be it when my eyes can not tell a spider from a fly<br \/>\nor octopus from squid and what it tastes like inside there.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Fina\u2019denne\u2019 or Tabasco Sauce<\/strong><br \/>\npika fina\u2019denne\u2019 or Tabasco sauce<br \/>\nget some mannok take your pick<br \/>\nsome red rice and make it quick<br \/>\nso many depend upon a hot pepper sauce<br \/>\nsplashed without restraint on some fried chicken<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Thanksgiving Breath Before Death\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(my senior citizen spin on Shakespeare\u2019s sonnet 73)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I behold my time of death in some eternal cold<br \/>\nlimbs lame, knees shot, fingers gnarled and froze<br \/>\nmost of my songs sung, teenage tales all told<br \/>\nrequiem for my frame cawed by a murder of crows<br \/>\non sea cliffs I welcome the coming of night<br \/>\nwatch the moon slowly rise in the east<br \/>\nand darkness as the moon slips out of sight<br \/>\nno worries about eternal night in the least<br \/>\nwhat is left of my tropical life is glowing coals<br \/>\na low *tangantangan fire of burning embers<br \/>\nnow it is heaven or hell and roasting souls<br \/>\nThanksgiving has life way beyond Novembers<br \/>\ngone for good now age saps life and strength<br \/>\nmy love for all that lives will stay the length<\/p>\n<p><em>tangantangan is \u201ca large bush\u00a0 that proliferates on many of the high islands in Micronesia. Good for cattle feed and fuel.\u201d \u2014<\/em>Chamorro-English Dictionary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WILD TURKEY QUARTET The Turkey Asks, Please The turkey asks, please first give me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,50,19118,697],"class_list":["post-264760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-life","tag-power","tag-tabasco-sauce","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}