wild turkey in massena, n.y.
            Maurice Kenny
                c. 1996*
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        (heard poem on WSLU-FM afternoon news
        reported by Martha Foley 11/14/96)
        
Found staggering
the streets of this
fair but chilly city,
apparently consumed
too much beverage
in the form of wild cranberries
freshly plucked
in the bog, or some
other tempting fruit
fermenting.
        The turkey was jailed.
Presently is drying out.
Will be released later.


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* from In_the_Time_of_the_Present_, 2000

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