{"id":846,"date":"2008-12-23T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T08:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2008-12-28T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:22:16","slug":"talking-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/talking-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"TALKING TURKEYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah featured in the BBC’s Made in England<\/a> series to help get you in the festive spirit!<\/p>\n

Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah<\/p>\n

Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
\nCos turkeys jus wanna hav fun
\nTurkeys are cool, an turkeys are wicked
\nAn every turkey has a Mum.
\nBe nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
\nDon’t eat it, keep it alive,
\nIt could be yu mate an not on yu plate
\nSay, Yo! Turkey I’m on your side.<\/p>\n

I got lots of friends who are turkeys
\nAn all of dem fear christmas time,
\nDey say ‘Benj man, eh, I wanna enjoy it,
\nBut dose humans destroyed it
\nAn humans are out of dere mind,
\nYeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
\nDey all hav a right to a life,
\nNot to be caged up an genetically made up
\nBy any farmer an his wife.<\/p>\n

Turkeys jus wanna play reggae
\nTurkeys jus wanna hip-hop
\nHavey you ever seen a nice young turkey saying,
\n‘I cannot wait for de chop’?
\nTurkeys like getting presents, dey wanna watch christmas TV,
\nTurkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
\nIn many ways like yu an me.<\/p>\n

I once knew a turkey His name was Turkey
\nHe said ‘Benji explain to me please,
\nWho put de turkey in christmas
\nAn what happens to christmas trees?’
\nI said, ‘I am not too sure Turkey
\nBut it’s nothing to do wid Christ Mass
\nHumans get greedy and waste more dan need be
\nAn business men mek loadsa cash.’<\/p>\n

So, be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
\nInvite dem indoors fe sum greens
\nLet dem eat cake an let dem partake
\nIn a plate of organic grown beans,
\nBe nice to yu turkey dis christmas
\nAn spare dem de cut of de knife,
\nJoin Turkeys United an dey’ll be delighted
\nAn yu will mek new friends ‘FOR LIFE’.<\/p>\n

You can also watch Zephaniah deliver the poem here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah featured in the BBC’s Made in England series to help get you in the festive spirit! Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas Cos turkeys jus wanna hav fun Turkeys are cool, an turkeys are wicked An every turkey has a Mum. Be nice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}