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The First Thanksgiving
In 1620, the pilgrims plenty landed on Plymouth Rock. The pilgrims met friends such as Massisoit, and Squanto, who taught them how to hunt, and how to grow.
At first, the Indians were scared to death that the pilgrims had landed on their land to rest!
But then they found out it was fun to be living, that’s when they invented the first Thanksgiving.
And then other people could not remember if Thanksgiving was in May, or November.
So, in 1789 George Washington found it fine to declare it a National day. And then the next year people jumped and shouted and cried out “Hurray, today is a National Holiday!”
Modern-day Commentary
Well, I guess this counts as a poem. And a bit cheerful and optimistic, at that.
Best takeaway, my love of the Oxford comma goes back at least to when I was five or six years old.