The Turkey as Our National Bird

Long ago, or so I've heard,
The famed Ben Franklin quite bestirred



The people re: a national bird.
And while the turkey seems absurd,



A turkey, if he were captured,
And thinking of his poor gizzard



Would hope a hunter'd be deterred
And keep him as a bird pampered.




The turkey said, and I concurred,
Check this piece and its turkey herd.