I was driving Interstate route 90,
the stretch of it known as the Massachusetts Turnpike
or the MassPike for short,
last week.

And there they were,
NOT in the median,
but where the shoulder went to a rising grassy slope.

A pair of adult wild turkeys
AND their little ones, must have been half-a-dozen "chicks",
grazing up the slope in the grass.

Not all that far away
from all these automobiles exceeding the speed limit, either --
those turkeys are brave, or deaf, or something.