Two Old Poems

      More Letters From Paradise
          Two Old Poems

          Ice Box
"When were refrigerators invented,?" she      asked.
Suddenly you remember the ice box.
Every time you had to empty the drip pan
it was overflowing.
Water usually was spilled in the middle
of the kitchen floor
on the way to the sink.
And what about the ice man?
We would stand around watching
as he took the heavy steel tongs
and carried the ice block to the house.
Now was our chance to see if there
were any ice chips he couldn't use.

          Henry Ford
Nearly everyone by now has heard
how Henry Ford  had said
you could have any color car you wanted
as long as it was black.
But did you know that the paint
contained soybean oil?
Many farmers soon learned
not to park their cars
anywhere near a cow
as it would lick off all
the paint.

       Aloha
       Grant