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The Wisdom of Turkeys^*

I.B. Rad

A turkey marveled
at his perfect world
gobbling on about
less fortunate wild cousins
having to scrape a living
from hardscrabble fields and forests
and how his astute ancestors
had traded their bogus liberties
such as freedom to be eaten by predators
for the comforts and safety
of a farmyard existence.
For it was his good fortune
to be looked after
by compassionate poultry Gods
who meted out a daily allotment of food,
Inoculated him against illness,
protected him from predators,
and so on, until all he had to do
was gorge, sleep, and grow fat.
Moreover, his Gods
so loved turkeys
that they held a special day of thanks
for their continued fellowship.
And, for that matter,
he could never dream of fleeing
his turkey paradise,
for, even if he was able to guess his fate,
owing to domestication
he couldn’t live separately anyway,
so it’s not surprising
that when Thanksgiving day came
he was nowhere to be found.

Indebted to Taleb’s “turkey problem.” Given its fragility,
    one wonders whether our increasing dependence on
    the internet won’t become an example of a “turkey problem.”

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