A Boring Day At the Fortune Cookie Factory

A Boring Day at the Fortune Cookie Factory By Elton Camp Wei Lee had been inserting inane messages all day “Things are to go very well,” they often would say But one main thing ultimately got him into a rage He got really fed up being paid sweat shop wage Finally, he grew to detest those rich folks eating cat And decided that he would do something about that “What would happen,” Wei Lee did grin & suppose “If some new type of message I should compose?” He gleefully imagined some American turning pale If he were to write, “You will soon be placed in jail.” Wei thought of what other messages he might do “Unlike friend Russia, China will really bury you.” Then he figured out one that real panic would create Since the reader, he knew, Chinese food had just ate “You have just eaten poison” is the note he wrote While imagining some capitalist clutching his throat