Don'T Use A Knife Poem by gershon hepner

Don't use a knife, if you've no fork,
to eat your peas, a lot'll
slide off, more slippery than cork
you ease out from a bottle,
but crush them into smaller peas
and smear them on your hand
and lick them off like melted cheese.
Your host will understand.


Inspired, strangely enough, by an article by Frank J. Prial ('A Secret About Corks Is Out of the Bottle, ' The New York Times, February 3,1999) pointing out that the wine cork is a relic of a bygone age which may be replaced within the next ten years by a synthetic material called Neocork.

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