Let's Get Cereal, Folks (poem) by Frank Koerner on AuthorsDen

Let's Get Cereal, Folks
by Frank Koerner → (All Poetry by Frank Koerner)
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************************************* Who said our manufacturing base is gone. There is a flaky way out of all our economic problems. We still have the largest cereal manufacturing industry in the world. We need merely to convince the rest of the world to eat our product. Of course, we may create a worldwide, sugar crazed high every day. Consuming all those sugary flakes just might unleash some undesired flakes, as well. Perhaps it would be wiser to be careful of what we wish for. *************************************
It won't be long before all the Polish folk in Stettin Will be jumping all over just like Mary Lou Rettin. National rivalries may change. We’ll need to rewrite our treaties, The cause? will be bowls filled to the brim with WHEATIES! The sum of all the U.S cereals? Will they all be TOTAL hits? FRUIT & FIBRE? FROOT LOOPS? or plain ole Southern GRITS? KIX or TRIX in Bulgarian sticks? With brand names we are rife, SHREADED WHEAT or OATMEAL? or maybe both? That's LIFE! Will CREAM OF WHEAT stick to their ribs? or ifs, ands, or butts? Who knows where RAISIN BRAN'll stick? or even GRAPE-NUTS? The noisy Snap, Crackle, and Pop of the famous RICE KRISPIES Will be the daily breakfast food of a band of Romanian Gypsies. Russia might start humming, "The Song of the Volga OATmen". WHEAT CZECHS’ll bring new meaning to PRODUCT 9 plus 10? CAP'N CRUNCH’ll be a LUCKY CHARM for someone in Spain, Picking wild CRUNCH BERRIES or farming NUTRI-GRAIN. Some outcomes seem OUTRAGEOUS. Foresee any major flops? Will FRUIT RINGS be a loser? Possibly Kellogg's CORN POPS? Who's to say what foreigners will like? We don't have any facts. Maybe Hungarians won't be so hungry for our APPLE JACKS. One possibility might occur as the world market daily stuffs Sugar-coated breakfasts in its face (such as COCOA PUFFS). We might create a monster dependant on those fillers and End up creating sugar-crazed demons; worldwide cereal killers. Copyright © 2008 by Frank Koerner

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo

Reviewed on December 16, 2008

You are so right, better be very careful what we, or the world wish for. Hmmmm, Frosted Flakes, Cocoa Pebbles and anything else sugary or chocolatey are my passion...

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)

I eat the Cheere0s...
Go0d one Frank

Ron