Peeps

I heard a funny story  of

Kids playing an Easter game.

They dress up their Peeps candies

And melt them in the microwave.

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Timing to see which becomes unrecognizable first,

they videotape it and give subtitles

while their Peep’s candy faces –

efface from the inside out.

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You know that’s how a microwave cooks

by boiling a tissue’s inner water.

By the time it warms to touch,

it’s proteins coagulate from the inside out.

[Does this form new protein globs when they congeal and melt? Is this even to a body, recognizable as food? Hmm, an idea for a study perhaps-meanwhile I’ll stop using it).

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Microwave doesn’t care-

it does the ‘dirty’ work-

as programmed by ‘god’-

hu(e)-man who pushes the (right) buttons.

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Like Angry Orange claymations,

with their lively sound effects,

but in Bo- Peep pastels.

The Peeps go down, flat upon the plate.

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As their masked beings slowly crumple,

features pool,

props topple.

Bodies melt like water on the Wicked Witch.

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I wonder if the Peeps ‘don’t like’ it at all,

(but then I might be projecting.)

Good thing they’re not sentient

simply a man’s idea for fun Easter – besides chocolate eggs.

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Nonetheless, the story made me laugh out loud –

I almost wet my pants;

I thought it hilarious-

Compared to the de—mented stuff

my ex- might do or did,

this is innocuous.

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(As a kid he thought it was funny using (insert slug or bug’s name here)

To watch as he zapped them

It was funny to ‘make them dead[1]‘-

as if they were a cartoon.)

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I’ll  have to tell him about the Peeps instead!

It’s not a bad ‘job’ for them (the Peeps) to do at all –

Call it repurposing.

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Even though Peeps as candy are fun and squishy

The taste is flat and sickly sweet (at least to me),

Call it my fault – I can’t but taste an underlying bitterness-

probably the potassium sorbate.

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Perhaps for a candy,

I’d prefer organic marshmallow

dyed with saffron

for a more edible substitute.

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But if your bored, why not dress up a Peep

And see how long it lasts –

before it melts

in a microwave race?

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[1] Apparently insects are a great protein source- or so some nutritionist’s say (I suspect they are quite correct- we can digest them in fact; I’d bet grubs might be a specialty someday). He, my ex- shouldn’t stop there, but find a way to further prepare them. (If you have a destructive behavior, why not roll with it- become a food scientist?!).

By Dr. Jen Wyman-Clemons, MD

Dr. Wyman-Clemons treats the body, mind, emotions as well as spiritual wellness using tools described by established teachers and authors and her own experiences. She has ~thirty years of clinical experience as an allergy and internal medicine physician (ABAI, ABIM) and recently completed requirements to practice as a yoga teacher, USUI Reiki Master and astrologer.

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