Okay, we’ve been gone a while but it’s time for me — that’s Dr. Crankenfuss — to post a poem that will eventually be in my book, which will come out in about a year. IF I CAN BELIEVE DANIEL! Anyway, I’m presenting it as this week’s Sunday Snippet for Weekend Writing Warriors. Be sure to visit the Warrior site and look through all the stuff writers post there. A lot of interesting reading for sure.
So here’s my poem. But first I have to explain why I wrote it.
See, I wrote a post with a poem that was entitled Books Are Evil. They’re Killing Us. Let’s Ban Books! Click here to read it if you want. Daniel posted the poem at a few places including LinkedIn and I got some replies. Some were nice and agreed with me. Others weren’t so nice. For one thing, people told me my love for iPads and Kindles was wrong because they were made in China by workers who made about $1 a day. So I did some investigating on my own and this is what I found out.
by Dr. Crankenfuss
I don’t understand it,
What can I say?
Almost nothing I own’s
Made in the USA.
My shoes come from Vietnam or China,
Calvin Klein’s made in Hong Kong,
Almost the only thing I have not from the far East
Is a polyester shirt from Oman.
India, Korea, Pakistan,
Don’t matter if it’s for a woman or a man,
I don’t know what happened to all the US workers,
Must be they’re all frying fast food burgers.
So I guess to be fair I should give up my iPad,
Its workers are exploited and somehow that’s my bad,
I could read paper books printed here I suppose
But shouldn’t I also learn to live without clothes?
Thank you to Weekend Writing Warriors and now it’s time for my usual rant.
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From Your Dude with the ‘Tude,
Dr. Crankenfuss
Oh that was funny! Point well taken. Go naked, no coffee in the morning, walk to work because all the parts in your car, bus, train are probably made in those same countries. But DON’T mess with my iPad man!
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Must agree with Cindy–point well taken, Daniel. 🙂 My 87 year old father in law has been saying for as many years as I’ve known him, “Buy American.” Oy! I’d better stop. Don’t want to get my rant on. 🙂
When “Love Thug” is free, if you tweet to me @teresa_cypher, I’ll retweet it and I’ll rework your tweet into one of my own.