We are trying some of what this poem suggests (pictures to follow):
31 ways of eating Peanut Butter
by Charles Wilkins
On a biscuit
on a bun
On your finger
On your thumb
with a little wild mustard
with a little mild custard
in the North
In the West
In a seer-sucker vest
on the back of a toboggan
on a roller coaster ride
boiled
buttered
toasted
poached
baked or
chicken-fried
Take it with a grain of salt
Or a little pinch of snuff
Eat it off your elbow if your tongue is long enough
In the closet
In a bed
On a piece of brown bread
On a fork
On a stick
When you're well
When your sick
With a peanut in the middle
With a cherry on top
You can drop it down your gullet
with a peanut butter plop
Standing still or on the run
And that is thirty one
...or is it thirty-two?
All the many ways there are of eating peanut butter
And none of them is really any better than the other
So if you like to spread it on the bottom of your shoe
And scrape it off and eat it
It's entirely up to you
Will it really matter any way in 50 years or so
How we ate our peanut butter 50 years ago?
1 comment:
I am going to print this poem and act it out. Many thanks for your lovely poetry-inspiration.
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