Thanksgiving Dream

A comic poem that reimagines Thanksgiving through the lens of a fever dream. Lincoln, the master of Cape Cod humor, takes the beloved American holiday and stretches it into something absurd, affectionate, and deeply funny. The poem plays with the grand expectations of the perfect Thanksgiving gathering - the towering turkey, the overflowing table, the gathered family - and lets the comedy bloom from the gap between American myth and messy reality. Written in Lincoln's signature folksy, rolling verse, this is a poem that knows exactly how much we invest in this one autumnal Thursday, and how wonderfully chaotic that investment can become. It's the kind of gentle satire that loves its subject too much to mock it harshly, instead wrapping its humor in genuine warmth for the American tradition of giving thanks (and eating until one cannot move).