ham instead

the menu
was written in the dark
in the dark where backs got turned
on tradition
on our principles
our shared principles of hate of the turkey
and love oven
where turkey bastes in his own juices
the ritual sacrifice

we leave that today
and have some bastard food
some sort of inhuman tofu
or even worst, some pariah of the farm
the pig
or the ham

why, I axe not a horse?
you would die of course