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Poem- “Deep in our Refrigerator” Jack Prelutsky

on April 24, 2014

Deep in our refrigerator,
there’s a special place
for food that’s been around awhile . . .
we keep it, just in case.
“It’s probably too old to eat,”
my mother likes to say.
“But I don’t think it’s old enough
for me to throw away.”

 

It stays there for a month or more
to ripen in the cold,
and soon we notice fuzzy clumps
of multicolored mold.
The clumps are larger every day,
we notice this as well,
but mostly what we notice
is a certain special smell.

 

When finally it all becomes
a nasty mass of slime,
my mother takes it out, and says,
“Apparently, it’s time.”
She dumps it in the garbage can,
though not without regret,
then fills the space with other food
that’s not so ancient yet

 

 

This Poem by Jack Prelutsky is my favorite. Prelutsky is a well known and accomplished Children’s poet. He has many books and a book on poetry writing for kids called “Pizza, Pigs and Poetry”.  When I was in elementary school he was my favorite poet and still is. This is my favorite of his poems because he describes the molding food perfectly. I know what moldy food is like because I accidentally used to always leave my dinner plates outside when I would go out to play. Also, I can relate to my mom keeping food in the fridge for long periods of time then those being replaced by new foods. My mom never leaves the food long enough for it to mold or rot, but she leaves it in there for a long, long time.


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