Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:00:42 EST
From: VPhloxV@AOL.COM
Subject:      Re: [WRITERS] INT: the eMJay award interview questions, part tree?

If I were a canned food I would be a tin of G.I. beans in a care package
drifting down from a parachute over Japan, hurtling towards radioactive
contamination.

If I were a canned food I would be asparagus in a woman's cupboard in France,
but I don't know French,   I would have no idea what I was.

If I were a canned food I would be the okra languishing under the kitchen
sink, finally rescued and dumped into a large cardboard box in the paste
scented front hall of an elementary school from a small hand in gritty mittens
dripping ice crystals.

If were a canned food I would be a tinned ex-salmon, proud of my chewy pink
calcium content.

If I were a canned food I would be a Michelob, crunched waspwaisted by a
corseting beef swollen hand.

If I were a canned food I would be pale mealy pears, soggy and despondent.

If I were a canned food I would be cocktail onions, wishing for white go go
boots when it came time to shimmy in an iridescent martini.

If I were a canned food I would be Folger's automatic drip, knowing my future
is glorious but blessed in my ignorance that it will involve being steeped.

Love,

Alison

If I were