Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,
Dey wanna enjoy it, dey say humans destroyed it
An humans are out of dere mind,
Yeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
Dey all hav a right to a life,
Not to be caged up an genetically made up
By any farmer an his wife.
Turkeys just wanna play reggae
Turkeys just wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop',
Turkeys like getting presents, dey wanna watch christmas TV,
Turkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
In many ways like yu an me.
2006-12-17 10:09:39 · 11 answers · asked by δώδεκα 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I once knew a turkey called........ Turkey
He said "Benji explain to me please,
Who put de turkey in christmas
An what happens to christmas trees?",
I said "I am not too sure turkey
But it's nothing to do wid Christ Mass
Humans get greedy an waste more dan need be
An business men mek loadsa cash'.
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
Invite dem indoors fe sum greens
Let dem eat cake an let dem partake
In a plate of organic grown beans,
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
An spare dem de cut of de knife,
Join Turkeys United an dey'll be delighted
An yu will mek new friends 'FOR LIFE'.
Benjamin Zephaniah
2006-12-17 10:10:54 · update #1
that was bloody wicked!!!!! i was veggie for four years, and your excellent poem has made me rethink my Christmas dinner!!! thank you for sharing!!! (p.s,i agree wiv your pete!! ignore sad bstards above....i pity them lol!!!)
2006-12-17 11:02:31 · answer #1 · answered by mwah ha haha ha ha ha haaa 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
right that is a good answer from Michael Quinlin (I have basically copied it) I’ve stumbled on 3 thoughts about this, none of them completely convincing. We do keep in mind that it’s a US time period. It’s first recorded in 1824, yet is possibly a lot older; one suggestion is that it is going decrease back so a procedures as colonial circumstances. What the excuses have in elementary is actual turkeys. besides the indisputable fact that the that technique of the word seems to have shifted down the years. firstly it meant to talk agreeably, or to say pleasant issues; those days it in many circumstances refers to speaking frankly, discussing difficult data, or putting out to severe organization. The replace seems to have befell because to “communicate turkey” replaced into augmented in some unspecified time sooner or later interior the 19th century to “communicate chilly turkey”, with the fashionable meaning. interior the approach time it replaced into abbreviated back, with the shorter kind holding the more recent meaning. (the different that technique of “chilly turkey” is unrelated.) the most prosaic answer is that the “to communicate pleasantly” experience got here about with the help of the nature of kin communication around the Thanksgiving dinner table. that is likewise reported that it arose because the first contacts between section human beings and settlers in many circumstances targeted on the provision of untamed turkeys, to the quantity that Indians were reported to have enquired on each occasion they met a colonist, “you come back to communicate turkey?”. the most complicated rationalization is a tale about a colonist and an section who went searching, agreeing to percentage their spoils both. on the right of the day, the bag replaced into 4 crows and four turkeys. The colonist tried to partition the spoils with the help of declaring “right here’s a crow for you” to the Indian, then holding a turkey to himself, giving yet another crow to the Indian, etc. At this factor the Indian very truly protested, declaring “you communicate all turkey for you. basically communicate crow for Indian”. I plump for the prosaic Thanksgiving rationalization, with a aspect guess on the turkey determining to purchase and promoting thesis.
2016-11-30 21:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great stuff. Benjamin is a Vegan and a "dialect" poet in the sense that he writes in his own dialect with no reference to "correct" grammar, which makes his fantastic work all the more powerful and relevant.
It's not just funny, it has a serious point to make and it needs to be taken on board by all those who are thinking about eating turkey this christmas. See also the fact sheet on Turkey at http://www.animalaid.org.uk
2006-12-17 23:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by H 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
LOL very good, especially for turkeys. Some sad replies above!.
2006-12-17 10:46:15 · answer #4 · answered by your pete 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not exactly Shakespeare. But I don't doubt you have lots of friends who are turkeys.
2006-12-17 10:18:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Maybe like you. Not like me. Who eats dogs!
2006-12-17 10:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by Barks-at-Parrots 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
so in all this turkey business, watz ur question? or u prob dnt hav 1
2006-12-17 10:24:03 · answer #7 · answered by ask n u shall receive 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Sorry time to get stuffed!!!
That turkey's days are numbered!
2006-12-17 10:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
aaaaawwwww that's cute! i like that! good job!
2006-12-17 11:05:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yawn, is that the time already.
2006-12-17 10:18:19 · answer #10 · answered by David 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋