.
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)
I, too, thought of the old Jiffy Pop when watching poor misplaced Balloon Boy elude rescue and capture.
ReplyDeleteI believe if Padgett's pop
ReplyDeletemet 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