NATHAN PARKER

Eating Snow

Parents tell their children not to eat yellow snow. This is wrong. They should tell them not to eat red snow. A child need only eat one scoop of yellow snow and he will have learned his lesson. What a horrible vinegary koolaid! he will say. And he will never eat it again. But his experience with red snow will be different.

What have we here? he will say, as he mixes it around his mouth. The tongue really tingles. Yes, this stuff is surprising and rich and I mustn't forget how it pleased my eye. Why, it is like red cheesecake cooked with exotic copper herbs.

Then his head will start to pound and he will become very handsome and well-spoken. He will roam the wintry streets in confusion—then he will find a child spreading angels into a white lawn and he will say, What luck! Red snow! And later, no doubt, the child of other bad parents will cross this grisly site, asking, Hm, what have we here?



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