Willie and the 36

[Connie Clark]

--- Jim Strong <strongjim@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Okay, who's got the words / comic strip panel for
> LA's
> Wille & the 36 Flavors poem (Feds n' Heads 1968??).

...my pleasure, ahem:

Willie and the Thirty-Six Flavors 
by Lieuen Adkins

Willie walked with happy heart,
A shiny quarter in his hand;
He went to buy an ice cream cone,
A triple-decker ice cream cone.
He marched quite gaily all alone
Up to the ice cream stand.

"I'd like an ice cream cone," he said.
The waitress said, "That's very nice,
And what will be your flavor, please?
Just specify what flavor, please.
We've thirty-six varieties--
You must be more precise."

Willie closed his eyes in thought
And ran his fingers through his hair.
"I'd like a chocolate," he said
"We're out of chocolate," she said.
"Would you like licorice instead,
Or apricot or pear?"

Willie blinked and scratched his head
As he stood making up his mind.
"I'll take vanilla, then," said he.
"We've no vanilla, sir," said she.
"But we have cumquat and green pea
And watermelon rind."

"I'll have strawberry, then." he said.
But he was starting now to worry.
The waitress spoke and said. "We're out;
Since just this morning we've been out,
But we have turnip, fig, and trout,
And cantaloupe and curry."

He could not get a word in now
So swifly did the waitress speak:
"Oh, we have coconut and spice
And pumpkin fudge (You'll find that nice)
And cabbage, mango, Spanish rice,
Potato, fish, and leek."

Willie bolted from the shop
And back the way that he had come.
As by the grocery store he sped.
He stopped to buy a loaf of bread;
He took it home with him to bed
And ate it every crumb.


from:
The Book of Lieuen, Including the Lost Verses,
edited and deesigned by Robert Burns,
Published by Oat Willies, 1991.

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