A Boring Day At the Fortune Cookie Factory

A Boring Day at the Fortune Cookie Factory

By Elton Camp

Wei Lee had been inserting inane messages all day
“Things are to go very well,” they often would say

But one main thing ultimately got him into a rage
He got really fed up being paid sweat shop wage

Finally, he grew to detest those rich folks eating cat
And decided that he would do something about that

“What would happen,” Wei Lee did grin & suppose
“If some new type of message I should compose?”

He gleefully imagined some American turning pale
If he were to write, “You will soon be placed in jail.”

Wei thought of what other messages he might do
“Unlike friend Russia, China will really bury you.”

Then he figured out one that real panic would create
Since the reader, he knew, Chinese food had just ate

“You have just eaten poison” is the note he wrote
While imagining some capitalist clutching his throat
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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The Rogue Rhymer Avatar
September 18, 2011 at 2:03 PM
That is great! I often thought of what I'd write if I was in charge...'You better pick up some blood pressure meds. on the way out...this sh1t is full of sodium..." Anyway...thanks for the laugh!
D'Rhymer Avatar
September 18, 2011 at 8:09 AM
a nice rhyme in time that saved 9ine..hehehe
Lane Avatar
September 18, 2011 at 7:58 AM
And even if they were only unnerved, Just desserts would have been served. Tony
Camp Avatar
September 18, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Tony, I am often surprised at people who should know better, yet give some degree of credence to those notes in fortune cookies. All I have ever seen are so general that they can apply to anybody on earth. I got to thinking about the reaction if they said something scary and thus this little write jumped out. Thanks for reading and commenting. Elton
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