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The Seven Ages of the Christmas Turkey · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The seven ages of the Christmas Turkey, all the worlds
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Speaker 1: of platter, and all the men and women merely eaters
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Speaker 1: they have with them always their appetites. And one turk
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Speaker 1: in his time plays many parts, his axe being seven ages.
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Speaker 1: At first the roast reposing grandly on the groaning board.
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Speaker 1: Then the warmed overbird, served up next day lest we
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Speaker 1: forget the yule tide's merry meal. Then the cold cuts
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Speaker 1: at luncheon and at tea. Next comes the stew eclept
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Speaker 1: a prick a sea, which forsooth do cause us many
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Speaker 1: groans and pangs of indigestion. The croquettes garnished with parsley
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Speaker 1: cunningly and mixed with what suspiciously doth taste like veal,
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Speaker 1: And so they play their part. The sixth age shifts
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Speaker 1: into the lean and languid Turkey. Hash last scene of
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Speaker 1: all that ends this strange, eventful history. A skeleton, a
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Speaker 1: rack of clean picked bones that finds its dismal way
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Speaker 1: into the soup, sand's breast, sand's legs, sands, wings, sands, everything,