Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:34:14 -0700
From: drkwrtr <drkwrtr@C2I2.COM>
Subject:      Re: [WRITERS] INT: the eMJay award interview questions, part tree?

Allison,

This is great.   You have stumbled on to an emminently publiehable poem.  I love
it and am printing it out and pasting it on the inside of my canned food cupboar
d.

Thanks!!!

VPhloxV@AOL.COM wrote:

> 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

--
Weston Ochse

A fly and a flea flew up in a flue,
Said the fly to the flea, "What should we do?"
"Let's fly," said the Flea.
"Let's flee," said the Fly.
So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.
(Nursery Rhyme)  -"A Rocket in my Pocket"

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