Old Poems Written Years Ago

      More Letters From Paradise
      Old Poems Written Years Ago
               Ice Man
     " When were refrigerators invented,?                  she asked.
        Suddenly you remember
            the ice box.
        Every time you had to empty
           the drip pan
          it was always
          over-flowing.
      Water usually spilled
 in the middle of the kitchen floor
         on the way to the
             sink
   "And what about the ice man?"
           she asked.
     We would stand around
           waiting
     as he took the steel tongs
      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 said
     you could have every
         color
    car you wanted
   as long as it was
        black
   But did you know
     the paint
 contained soybean oil?
    Many farmers
    soon discovered
 not to park their cars
   anywhere near a
       cow
 or it would lick off
     all the
     paint

     
                Black
        He was big and he was
              Black
       when he walked into the
            restaurant
            in Georgia
           that morning
         The waitress  said
      "What will you have sir?"            
            Nobody
        even looked up
       from their plates
    "What will you have sir?"
    "I will have a big plate
         of freedom
        and respect"

     Aloha
    Grant