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Dennis L. White
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since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463
Michigan, U.S.A.

0 posted 2000-09-07 11:23 AM


Fruit label, fruit label,
What is your purpose,
Is it to inform us,
Or just here to urk us?

Do you just grow ,
Right on the fruit,
Or are you applied,
By some sulry brute?

I don't need to see,
Your nuisance sticker,
To tell me just who
Was your underpaid picker!

You stick to my fruit,
Resisting extraction,
Mocking my strength,
With smug satisfaction!

I can see it so well,
"Was a good man" they'll say,
"He exercised much,
Ate five fruits a day"

"But he died so young,
So strong and so able,
Cause of the death?
Ate too many fruit labels!"





[This message has been edited by Dennis L. White (edited 09-07-2000).]

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Romy
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since 2000-05-28
Posts 1170
Plantation, Florida
1 posted 2000-09-07 11:49 AM


What a silly, fun poem!
ellie LeJeune
Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA
2 posted 2000-09-07 06:17 PM


Bro; They put those things on with cement!
HAHA! you have a marvelous witty sense of humor, love this one! Sis

Summers haunting melody
that awakens
the butterflies,
calling them to join
the dance
in their silent song
of praise to God.

eL

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida
3 posted 2000-09-07 09:20 PM


man!!  arent they awful!!  especially on something like a plum that you really dont want smashed under the blasted label!!  LOL  

love this!!  *belly laughs*  

hugs, dg


"Half of what i say is meaningless; but i say it so that the other half may reach you."
-Kahlil Gibran

"I'm growing/I dont like it/I'm growing an

deleeme
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 1766
NEW ENGLAND, USA
4 posted 2000-09-07 09:57 PM


Bro.,
  I went banana's over this one!
You are cherry funny, orange you? David


WOW- another day of life-and here among friends!
Ain't God Grand!



vlraynes
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...
5 posted 2000-09-07 10:17 PM



dennis-
   just plum peachy!!  grape job!!!     
   sorry...just couldn't help saying
   that...lol.  those labels are sooo
   annoying!  love this...lots of fun
   to read.  

   -vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet.
                -vlraynes

kelieth
Member
since 2000-06-12
Posts 314
Normal IL - USA
6 posted 2000-09-08 12:16 PM


LOL ROFLOL LOL Great piece.   Laughed Till I hurt.  

Kevin

"Anything is possible with patience, time is the tool use it to reach your goals."

Alle'cram
Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816
Texas
7 posted 2000-09-08 12:29 PM


....you just tickel me good!!    marcy
poutprincess
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since 2000-07-06
Posts 735
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
8 posted 2000-09-08 01:07 PM


*giggle*
its amazing the things people can write about!
this is so funny!
~Dawn  

"Steady as it comes, right down to you, I've said it all, so maybe we're a Bliss of another kind" Bliss-Tori Amos



Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

9 posted 2000-09-08 09:35 PM


Thanks for the chuckles, Dennis! I enjoyed this!

Denise

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