Give Thanks

FauxPoWriMo #18

Give Thanks

Polish up your phoney grin

And your funeral heels.

Buy Chablis for the others,

But use rum to grease your wheels.

Try to bake as well as fake

Pumpkin Pie contentment.

Lay your napkin on your lap

To catch crumbles of resentment.

Remember that you love them all

Although you cannot say it.

Hug the strangers, quake in fear,

And hope the joint allays it.

Curb the cursing, ditch the bitch,

Pretend you're wholly sweet.

If you can't think of a topic,

Why not have some more to eat?

Be thankful for the lives you touch

Even if they skeeve you out.

It's better to be welcomed in

Than quickly ushered out.

To hell with the apologies

From both sides, overdue.

Give thanks for having family

To give your thanks unto.