[CH] Chile poem
AndyB (quark@erols.com)
Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:52:49 -0500
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Subject: cute poem
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:30:30 -0500
From: "Alan Dean" <pepperdean@home.com>
To: "Alan Dean" <pepperdean@home.com>
CHILI PEPPER
from Lasting Lessons by Susan Munguia
They have good food in Texas, I can tell you this is true.
I've had my share of chicken-fried steak and down home barbecue.
So when a cowboy looked at me with a twinkle in his eye,
and said "I've got a lil' somethin' here I think that you should try."
I was ready to be a Texan, to be part of the Lone Star State.
Then he took a chili pepper and tossed it on my plate.
I didn't know they taste like fire, so I popped it in my mouth.
One arm went east and the other west, my legs went north and south.
It was hotter than a branding iron, hotter than the Texas sun.
I leaped from my chair, did flips in the air.
It was not what you'd call fun.
The wranglers started laughing as the sweat rolled down my cheeks.
My mouth and tongue and lips burned for the next 500 weeks!
So if you try a chili pepper, please take my advice --
Have a water pitcher handy that is filled with lots of ice!!
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Andy