Breakfast With Scott And Zelda And Franz And Yelberton And ...

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I asked Kafka to pass the salt.

He passed it in the other direction.

Joan Rivers told a joke about saltpeter.

Zelda didn't think it was funny

But Scott laughed hysterically:

"I'm gonna give saltpeter

to all the other men in your life."

Y. A. Tittle served bacon.

He frisbeed slices

onto everyone's plate.

John Lennon sat on a cornflake

and waited for

the milk to come.

Langston Hughes told a story

about cornflakes

and the merchant marines.

Zelda laughed hysterically.

Scott echoed her laughter

without understanding why.

Gertrude Stein asked if anyone

wanted more

chapter and verse.

Richard Pryor asked for 

a few punctuation marks.

I passed him the orange juice.

He passed it to Lewis Carroll

who was sitting between

the Bishop and the Queen.

The juice made it all around the table

but Marilyn Monroe double-gulped.

The more people drank,

the more juice there was.

Then in walked Yesterday,

with her notebook,
gathering autographs.

But all she said to me was
"You need more sleep."

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Paul Oliverio

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Footnotes

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AND FRANZ AND YELBERTON AND ...

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