Share this postRick Wilson’s SubstackFrying TurkeysCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreFrying TurkeysA quick Thanksgiving messageRick WilsonNov 23, 2023150Share this postRick Wilson’s SubstackFrying TurkeysCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMore384ShareRick Wilson’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Subscribe
(I know it's a bit long, but such a lovely way to say it)
I pick an orange from a wicker basket
and place it on the table
to represent the sun.
Then down at the other end
a blue and white marble
becomes the earth
and nearby I lay the little moon of an aspirin.
I get a glass from a cabinet,
open a bottle of wine,
then I sit in a ladder-back chair,
a benevolent god presiding
over a miniature creation myth,
and I begin to sing
a homemade canticle of thanks
for this perfect little arrangement,
for not making the earth too hot or cold
not making it spin too fast or slow
so that the grove of orange trees
and the owl become possible,
not to mention the rolling wave,
the play of clouds, geese in flight,
and the Z of lightning on a dark lake.
Then I fill my glass again
and give thanks for the trout,
the oak, and the yellow feather,
singing the room full of shadows,
as sun and earth and moon
circle one another in their impeccable orbits
and I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.
~~ Billy Collins
With your help and your expertise in deep frying, I hope that we can deep fry the one whose name shall not be mentioned, so that he never holds public office again and spends his remaining days in a prison cell.