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A Thanksgiving Poem (2008) I am thankful for ATM machines For the smell of coffee beans For the dishwasher and for the GPS Thought up by the Pentagon, a great success That makes it unnecessary for us men To ever need to ask for directions again. Thank you thank you thank you thanks a lot For what we have and for some things that we do not I am thankful for macaroni and cheese, Of mac and cheese I have only good memories Boil water. Put the macaroni in. It's A very nice meal in about ten minutes. And speaking of food of low status, Thank you for instant mashed potatoes Which is simply dehydrated potato flakes. Mashed potatoes in one-tenth the time it takes To boil one and whip it up nice and smooth. And if you want to know the absolute truth That dry organic peanut butter -- I hate it. I like the kind with sugar and fat, saturated. Thank you thank you thank you and merci Peanut butter has always been merciful to me. And for the U.S. Postal Service I say thanks Delivering mail from Florida to Fairbanks, I am grateful for blogs and other new media And of course for the miraculous Wikipedia Which puts information at your fingertips An innovation as great as sailing ships, Or putting a steam engine on the rails, So thank you Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. And thank you Larry Page and Sergey Brin Who in 1997 launched a search engine Google, which simply is superb A noun that quickly became a verb.