"Plight of Olives" - food poem from the Southampton Summer Day days

My first book, "Let Peas Be With You," praised by Julia Child, Vincent Price, Yoko Ono and others, was inspired by the food poems I wrote for supermarket ads.

I figured I had maybe a dozen that were more than just rhyming ads to get people to buy food...why not keep going and write several dozen more?

Here's one of those early poems: "I Cuke."

The boy wonder was a wiseguy even back then. I had a line in the original poem:

"And women have told me between moaning grunts
They like to stick cucumbers into their soups."

I was asked for a re-write.

I got away with a couplet that was only mildly risque....