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Re: Dumb bugs
Posted By: Issachar, on host 199.172.141.230
Date: Friday, May 7, 1999, at 12:57:58
In Reply To: Re: Dumb bugs posted by extirpator on Friday, May 7, 1999, at 12:16:03:

> > > > > don't kill bugs
> > > > > bugs are cool
> > > > > how would you
> > > > > like to be a bug
> > > >
> > > > how would you
> > > > like to be
> > > > one of those
> > > > potatoes ?
> > >
> > > I think bugs
> > > are much more
> > > fun to watch
> > > than potatoes
> >
> > you have a point
> > there but which
> > would you rather
> > eat ?
> >
> > the purpose of
> > a vegetable
> > garden is after
> > all to produce
> > food so if
> > bugs are your
> > thing by all
> > means chow down.
>
> bugs do not
> taste good
> they do not
> taste right
>
> a garden however
> from the view
> of an insect is
> something to eat
>
> to be an insect
> or rather a potato
> perhaps a topic
> for the Site Journal

With apologies to William Carlos Williams or e.e. cummings, I forget which:

"This is just to say"

i have eaten the potato bugs
which were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for later
forgive me
they were so sweet
and so cold

Iss "poet and don't know it" achar

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