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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2007 : Amber Herrick
I AM A GROCERY BAGGER, AND I HAVE FEELINGS!
The beets pass through my hands
waiting to be juiced by the vegan
they will scream as he juices them
and stain the floor a terrible red
Georgia peaches
three-thirty-nine
white peaches
only a dollar
must we then conclude
to be white
is to be cheap?
the pieces of lettuce strewn on the floor
are the discarded cloaks of fairies
the snowy mold on the strawberries
their frost-touched pillows
and they have stolen the price signs
to make the palace of their king
shall we blame mere mortals
for the actions of fairies?
for where others see Incompetence, I see only Beauty
Sent as a joke to Poetry.com, this poem won an honorable mention in the 2007 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest sponsored by Winning Writers. Author Amber Herrick received a cash prize of $72.95.
About Amber Herrick
Amber Herrick is an extraordinary novelist, a good short story writer, a middling poet and a very bad essayist. Consequently she has published no novels, no stories, one poem (this one), but several essays including two for The Orlando Sentinel. She has just completed an epic escape from Florida and is living in Oregon, working on her third unpublished novel.
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