ELEPHANT
I love peanuts! I’m not afraid to say it. In a world of dread and drear, it’s good to make pleasant remarks. My life is an ode to peanuts---their savory goodness. Each breath I take, a longing for peanuts. To feel the soft crunch between my teeth! To swirl the delicious mash around my gums! Is there anything like a peanut! Oh, peanut! my, peanut! If I weren’t a pantheist, you could be my only god!BOY WITH AN ALLERGY
Peanuts, you will kill me . . . why do I know you? Once, I tasted. Too young to understand---though someone should have taught the reflex---and there you were, on the counter, tempting with your salty smell. I remember your deliciousness, as you slid past my throat. But then, the closing---oh, the closing! The stifling! The drawing of the curtain! And the dying---oh, the dying! But that first taste was too alluring. And, often, I want more. But you have brought me to the brink too much. Now, your goodness is tainted by cruel intentions. And, when I taste your skin, I taste my choking. So, peanuts, I am almost done with you. Almost. But not quite. For still, each time you pass my lips in illicit encounter, there is a fleeting moment, a rapturous memory of my first taste. Peanuts, I will die for you!PEANUT
Dig me up. Roast me. Eat me up. My death fills me with tuberescence.(Can be performed free of charge on National Peanut Day. Contact the author for
more details.)
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