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© St. Petersburg Times, published November 15, 2002
I like to eat turkey
But I hate to hear it squeak
So I tend to save the legs for last
And first consume the beak
Pretty bad, eh?
You can do worse!
Send your lame Thanksgiving verse to FLORIDIAN'S FIRST (AND LAST) BAD THANKSGIVING POETRY CONTEST. Entries may up to 10 lines long. They should rhyme, more or less. They should be bad.
Send them by regular mail to BARD OF THE BIRD, Floridian, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. Or by e-mail to mike@sptimes.com. Please include BARD OF THE BIRD in the subject line. Tell us your name and the city in which you live.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, Nov. 21.
The winner will receive something or other, and we'll publish the poorest of the poems on Thanksgiving Day.