Looks Good on Paper by Dan Collins for March 25, 2021

At least they’re not vaping.

That reminds of Tom Lehrer’s song, “Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park.”

Smoke, smoke that cigarette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_-vNtWLLs

That made me laugh out loud. Great art, perfect balance of anthropomorphism and realism!

Well, at least they aren’t chewing, imagine your car if they spewed from both ends.

Birds are too smart for this one. Also, they don’t explode if they eat rice.

Is this Dan’s attempt to replace Joe Camel with Smokey Starling?

One:

In the lay-back California town

Of sunny San Rafael

There’s a girl named Pearly Sweetcakes

You probably know her well

She’s been stoned fifteen of her eighteen years

And the story’s widely told

She can smoke ’em faster

Than any dude can roll.

Two:

Her legend finally reached New York

That Prince Street walkup flat

Where dwelt the Calistoga Kid

A beatnik from the past

He’s been rollin’ dope since time began

An’ he drew a careful toke

Said "Jim I can roll ’em faster

Than any chick can smoke..

(First two stanzas of “The Great Marijuana Smoke-off” by Shel Silverstein