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Sunday, 7 February 2010

Jiffy Pop (for Ron Padgett)


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File:JiffyPop.jpg



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."




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Jiffy Pop popcorn (stages of warming): photo by Stevanspringer, 2007
The Day the Earth Stood Still: film poster, 1951 (20th Century Fox)

2 comments:

Sue Ann Simar said...

I, too, thought of the old Jiffy Pop when watching poor misplaced Balloon Boy elude rescue and capture.

Anonymous said...

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