Goobers

down south we love our goobers
salt em up and set to roast
eat em by the dozens 
drink em in our cokes

fix em fancy in deserts
peanut butter pie
big and small all size and sorts
eat em till the day we die

granny loves to cook em
goobers in down home green beans
adds a bit of crunchiness 
to the sunday dinner scene

with newspapers set out on the floor
in front of  television sets
cracking shells like walker texas ranger
does good for nothing yankee heads

buy em hot and buy em boiled
along the roadside stand
spilling goober juices
all over the cars naugahyde rotan

finger licking greasy 
from out a planters can
down south we love our goobers
like you done heard me said
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Hoffman Avatar
September 5, 2016 at 7:56 PM
Personally, I'm a yankee transplant but love the shelled salted roasted ones the best...just bought 3 bags of them yesterday! Cute, fun and unique poem Mike!:)
Merryman Avatar
September 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM
Cute write, Mike! My husband loves boiled peanuts. He can have them.Ha ha! Blessings!
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