.
A man
in Denver
pretended
his son
had been
abducted
by space
aliens
in a
Jiffy Pop
balloon
that ascended
into
the sky.
A photo
of an unopened
Jiffy
Pop bag
hanging
against green
and yellow
wallpaper
over a darkened
doorway
in a shadowy
corner
of a
New York
apartment
was sent
to me
by Ron
Padgett.
"That cooking
oil in
the Jiffy
Pop
is bad
for one's
arteries," I
thought. "Maybe
that's why
Ron kept
his Jiffy
Pop up
there on
the wall all
these years,
as if
expecting it
one day
to fly."
Jiffy Pop popcorn (stages of warming): photo by Stevanspringer, 2007
The Day the Earth Stood Still: film poster, 1951 (20th Century Fox)
2 comments:
I, too, thought of the old Jiffy Pop when watching poor misplaced Balloon Boy elude rescue and capture.
I believe if Padgett's pop
met balloon boy's pop
he would have kicked his ass
which would have been better
for the world than all the
very pathetic TV coverage
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