We Need More Thanks Giving (An Indictment)

We Need More Thanks Giving (An Indictment)

Do ya think there's a Thanks Giving
Judge? Big Brother looking over
your shouldered responsibilities?

Turkeys come from somewhere, right?

The shared meal became the stolen
land, as history repeats like the musket's
report through a New World's wilderness;

skimming the ocean's centuries,

resting at the feet of hungry children
watching you give sacrifice to
the god of your belly;

salivating at your leftovers.

Why do some have more
when others have less?
A hand will level justice's scales . . .

Freely you have received, freely give*

  by Marie-Therese Knepper


*Matthew 10:8