The joy of Gertrude Stein.

There 'is no authority for the abuse of cheese',or so we're told. Maybe she's right. Perhaps potatoes are the best ingredient for breakfast. Could we have it all wrong? Breakfast is dinner, dinner should really include cereal???

I hear it's best for dieting. The metabolism is raring to work first thing, before the sluggish plodding of night.

Poor Stein, she has a bad rep. What with all the oddities of her use of language. Showing the readers that not a thing makes sense. Why should it? In fact what if the reverse, the oddities of convention make more sense. If of course there is sense.

'Why am I reading this!' I hear you scream. Is there a point? Well, no. Not really. The point is that there is no point. This is the joy of Gertrude Stein.

For the best Stein poem follow this link http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/ifitoldnew.html

Or, even better, an interpretive dance to the poem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NppkBGkMctI

Introducing the world to oddities and away from convention!