Winning One for the Kip

A day before Kip Addotta passed away at 75, I was listening to his 1991 song “Wet Dream,” which I first heard on the Dr. Demento Show. It brought the memory of the late Spring day in seventh grade, when Sister Phyllis asked me to write something for submission to the school newspaper:

Starvation Diet

Now the world,
Being Hungary,
Plucked Turkey,
Boiled in Greece,
With bits of Wales
And a lot of Chile,
Served it on China
And everyone ate!

Because it was considered too non-nonsensical, it wasn’t used. It’s languished in my pile of papers for nearly 46 years, until now.