It’s common knowledge, laughter is good medicine. Everyone
can use a good laugh, right? That’s why I’m sharing this lovely piece of
literature – written by yours truly in a writing group a few weeks ago. We were
learning how to write well by mirroring excellent authors. The author we were
studying for this piece of work happened to be entertaining a very sad topic. I
chose to take a Weird Al Yankovic approach instead. Are you ready for this?
Here we go!
Sometimes beans are cruel.
This is ultimately the fundamental lesson here; as doctors
hail their nutritional value, children and people of all ages suffer the social
side effects.
Sometimes it’s
lima beans. Sometimes its kidney beans. Sometimes it’s great northern beans.
Sometimes it’s black beans. Sometimes it’s refried beans. Sometimes it’s red
beans. Sometimes it’s green beans. Sometimes it’s pinto beans. Sometimes it’s
cannellini beans. The results are in: beans of every variety generate
flatulence. This is the price of being human.
So dig out your air freshener. Blast your music as loud as you can. And delight in all the nutrition your body is receiving, despite all the cruelty of beans.
