Well, maybe not unusual given who the poet is. But not a lot of people throw “honeybees” and “hardons” into a Thanksgiving poem. This was one of James Broughton’s many unpublished poems, created for the occasion of Thanksgiving dinner a friends home. That friend happened to be BIG JOY producer and co-director Stephen Silha, at his home which is affectionately known as “Sound Cliff.”
“Follow your own weird” people. Cheers to giving thanks to what you’re thankful for, no matter what the time of year!
THANK THANK THANK THANK
PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE
THANK THANK THANK THANK
CELEBRATE THE DAYS
A thank for mandolins and cheese
A thank for wine and honeybees
A thank for fellows deft and quirky
A thank for stuffing in the turkey
A thank for pixies trolls and faieies
A thank for Bloody and Holy Marys
A thank for angels and for knaves
A thank for rumors with their waves (a reference to the band Rumors of the Big Wave)
A thank for art and dance and words
For cooks and cocks and hummingbirds
A thank for queers and queens and cuties
and one for brawny hot patooties
A thank for those whose love is firm
A thank for hardon and for sperm
A thank for friends and food like this
and every taste of simple bliss
THANK THANK THANK THANK
PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE
THANK THANK THANK THANK
CELEBRATE THE DAYS
James Broughton 1992