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Note: I just realized the sestinas didn't have to be about a specific topic, oh well. __A Seasonal Holiday during which the Expression of Gratitude is Most Appreciated __ Somewhere towards the end of the autumnal time There arose a great hunger for the flesh of turkey And so these butchered avians flew to most every home Though not literally, for that would have been unusual Not to mention, for a passing airplane, a nightmare And for the passerbys, an interesting sight

Red leaves and gray sky, a dreary sight Inside glowed the warmth of a before time  But something was lurking, not yet a nightmare Around the vipers, danced the featherless turkey The people remained seated unusual Like paranoids boarded up in a survivalist’s home

Far from their rituals was the Graveyard Home Named after the cemetery within its sight Of all places to live in, the most unusual <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">While the tenants there, were not there this time There still hung from the gate the head of a turkey <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">But that was a different nightmare

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Returning to the location of the present nightmare Within the maw of the burning home <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Nothing was left of the kinetic turkey <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It was gone into oblivion, gone from sight <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Yet there loomed the party, bidding its time <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It had its devious ways, however unusual

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">No alien saucer, a terror so unusual <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">That it would mark the start of their nightmare <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The clock struck eight thirty, there was no more time <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A chasm opened up and swallowed the home <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Though little could be seen through their diluted sight <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">They all heard the haunting ode of the turkey

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Without alien saucer and with phantom turkey <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In tow they escaped out of the unusual <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Difficult to tell where to go, but their sight <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Or lack of, helped them in the midst of the nightmare <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Until they were reunited back at home <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hoping not to have to go through that a second time

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The world let back into sight the home <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The turkey found its head at the gate before winter’s time <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It was merely the end of a nightmare, nothing unusual