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Ate eight ‘O granny’s corn pone afore she ran me out. “Dems set aside for supper, boy. Don’t use knows dat?” Corn pone, cornpone, tastes so darn good, when granny’s in the kitchen making good food, good.
Finger-licking good, I could eat a mess ‘O corn pone, corn pone. Corn pone mighty tasty looking sitting on the window sill waiting on too cool. Get ‘em while they’s hot, fo granny swat ya wit a fly swatter swat, fo snatching her corn pone, strait hot fum er old wooden stove oven out the iron pone skillet. Snatch a bunch a corn pone, corn pone, take off toward da barn, barn. Granny on de porch wiff dat butt stinging swatter. Chasing us-ins cousins from eating all the batter.
Now’s while y’all’s steal’t my corn pone, cornpone, cornpone, geom now! Git! Chilling! Gwine on out a’ feed dem chickens while your at it. Maybe dat’ll quiet ole’ Mr. rooster; shut ‘em up, strutted strutting around all big-Ikey and n’all a crowing his wake up call here at noon, “Sun’s up all! Sun’s been up. I been cooking corn pone, cornpone since dawn.
Cornpone in the morning. Git ‘em whil’t theys hot. Cornpone for lunch, like em or not. Cornpone wit supper iffen any’s left. Cornpone, cornpone take ‘em, take ‘em fum the chef.
Mo
Corn pone, cornpone get ‘em while’s theys hot. Eat eight O’ granny’s cornpone. Jesse don’t git caught. Cornpone is good fo what alls ails ya. Lawsey! Lawsey! Cornpone.
Ummmm! Now out the ove wit all de family round, come a glowing big fat Turkey. Family’s settled in all around. Happy Thanksgiving traditions to all y’all too 🦃
by Appalachian Annie
Author's Notes: Poetic Prose. I enjoy this form of poetry. Sandburg was a master of poetic prose. Except he won three Pulitzers for poetry and never rhymed a poem. Yep. Read some of his poems. He said regarding rhyme or rhythm, "If it works, it works." I like to throw a little tickling rhyme and cultural chime to prose. I find it quite enjoyable to read.
Oh and I thoroughly love and respect Appalachian slang and culture. It has its own rythum.
Sending Thanksgiving 🙏🏻 your way.
tom tenbrunsel
A Carl Sandburg Writer
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