Free Verse Friday: Ode to the Otter Pop
A Note from Fatty: Wow. We’re almost to the end of the Dream Bike Giveaway. But not quite. And in fact, today’s giveaway from The Feed is tres awesome. (“Tres” is French for “triple.”) specifically, the winner of today’s drawing gets a three-month subscription to The Feed, plus a 4-pack of Probar Core Protein Recovery Bars. Yum!
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Ode to the Otter Pop
Summer
You punish
With your heat
And your arid heat
And your humid heat
And in short, your heat
Riding
Parched
Withering
I’m so thirsty
I am so very hot
And not in the sense
Made famous in the Foreigner song.
I want
No I need
The perfect
Post-ride food
I must have an Otter Pop
Or
Perhaps
I will have 6.
Because after all
Who am I kidding?
Icy
Cold
Sweet
So good
In their fruitiness
If that’s what you call it
But
Remember
Do not leave
The cut-off tops
Or empty containers
Nor gross sticky scissors
Laying about, lest you risk
The wrath of The Hammer.
Trust me, you don’t want that.
Comment by bikemike | 07.26.2013 | 12:02 pm
Mayhaps, The Hammers new nickname should be, She-Thor? Mayhaps? I could never find another way to use mayhaps without using my Norse language skills. The only two words i know are Thor and mayhaps. Oh, and Asgard but always spell that wrong and then i get the giggles.
Comment by SteveB | 07.26.2013 | 12:11 pm
Having participated in the successful raising of 4 kids to adulthood on a summertime diet that was probably 90% otter pops, I can definitely attest to their culinary splendor.
Comment by Sara | 07.26.2013 | 12:25 pm
What are these “Otter Pops” Fatty so eloquently speaks of?
I know not of these refreshing treats.
Surely my friend Google can help.
*clickity, click, click, click*
Aha, Otter Pops vs. Fla-Vor-Ice… the latter I know!
http://www.redyak.com/rants/OVF/OvF.htm
*readity, read, read, read*
The people who wrote this post are truly engaging!
But I will not spoil the ending.
Thank you.
Comment by Tom in Albany | 07.26.2013 | 1:11 pm
Oh ice cream.
Soft ice cream.
Scoop shops.
Ice cream floats.
Banana splits.
Even gelato!
I love ice cream.
Thank you, ice cream.
For being icy.
And creamy.
And totally.
Amazingly.
Delicious.
Hold the nuts,
Please.
Thank you.
Comment by roan | 07.26.2013 | 1:42 pm
Way to go The Hammer, awesome as ever !
Q. though was she smiling ?
Comment by SteveB | 07.26.2013 | 2:29 pm
@Sara – wow! Who’d a thunk it. I’ll never view otter pops the same way again. Can we sue for consumer fraud? Class action suit? I feel so cheated. Guess I’ll drown my sorrows in this box of frozen sugar water.
Comment by MattC | 07.26.2013 | 3:18 pm
What
is this
“heat” thing
that you speak of?
I
think
I would like
it very much, if only
for the chance to have an
Otter Pop rather than hot coffee.
I do not
remember what
they were called when
I was a kid, but certainly
wasn’t Otter Pops. They must have
been Fla-Vor-ice as Sara has brought to
our attention, but even that doesn’t sound right.
In Hawaii
they have Shave Ice
which is WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY
better than any frozen juice in a bag.
Matsumoto’s in Haleiwa is the best on the Island.
But I
digress. Heat.
It sounds wonderful.
Until it’s not, then you wish
for cold. I rarely wish for cold.
And by rarely I mean never. Please send
your heat this way, and I shall send our cold.
Thank you.
Comment by MattC | 07.26.2013 | 3:21 pm
Oh,
and with
the cold I will
give a free batch of
wind. All the wind you could
ever want. You will soon beg me to
take it back. And I won’t. I hate the wind.
Thank you.
Comment by Heidi | 07.26.2013 | 6:48 pm
Sara is
a genius
of a sleuth.
Thank you.
And thank Sara.
Comment by Davidh-marin,ca | 07.27.2013 | 12:30 am
@Sara
Well Done
for your next assignment
Catsup, Ketchup, and Mayonaise
Thank you
@Fatty:
Ah a
visual
free verse
bringing us
a message to
delight mind or
eye in equal parts
like 2 otter pops or
3 Fla-Vor-Ices your
choice, both visual and
intellectual well done sir
But
I ask
can a
verse so
tightly built
truly be called
“free”?
@Tom in Albany
Thank you for
showing us
another
angle
Comment by a chris | 07.27.2013 | 3:05 pm
Never heard of these
But they look like Mr Freeze
Thank you.
Comment by Anonymous | 07.27.2013 | 4:01 pm
Milk
600 mls.
Protein powder
Vanilla Dream
4 scoops.
Espresso
Double shot.
Ice cream
Also vanilla
’til the shaker is full.
Lid on.
Shake,
Shake
And shake again.
Lid off.
Aaaahhhh :-)
Lid on is Important.
I suspect that the Wrath of Gorgeous is somewhat like the Wrath of Hammer.
Comment by Peter Leach | 07.27.2013 | 4:02 pm
Anonymous = me
Comment by Nancy_in_MN | 07.28.2013 | 9:52 am
1 more bike
Plus 6 dollars more
So I’d get more points
Mostly, it’s about the bikes
But it’s a little bit about that Trek
I love this visual poetry format
It amuses the heart while
Pleasing the eye
1 more bike!
Thank you!
Comment by Mylissa | 07.28.2013 | 9:39 pm
Hahaha…The wrath of the Hammer is hilarious! I have 5 boys plus 1 husband and the sticky scissors and wrappers turn me into a crazy momma:) I can soo relate!
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You don’t know it….but you are a great poet :)
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Comment by Eric L | 07.30.2013 | 4:34 pm
Oh, I too have faced the wrath from leaving sticky scissors from Otter Pops binges. Now I can say, “well, all the cool kids are doing it too”.
But I’d gladly trade a box of Otter Pops for a perfect Hawaiian shave-ice.
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