July 5, 2007

• Third and Final Finalist

  of the 2007 Unannounced Poetry Contest

  In order to be sufficiently politically correct I have selected a woman as one of the three finalists in this year's competition:  Ms. June Threbey from Weed, California (though she sounds more "creepy" than "Threbey" to me-bee).

  Anyway, here is her poem:
  
  

  Sweet Evil

  my health-conscious conscience,
  frowning under furrowed brow,
  shouts mightily:
  
  two arms!  two arms! 
  to open up a pickle jar.
  but must we travel oh so far?
  when ice cream floats in chocolate boats,
  and cookies beckon from every shelf?
  i am not an elf.
  nor do i play one on tv.
  i adjure you, keebler®, let me be!

  
  

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