When God made Oklahoma,
He made it broad and wide,
With Texas on the bottom,
And Texas on the side,
With Alabaster Caverns
And Red Rock Canyon blest
With rolling hills and valleys
And sunshine east to west!
He filled the land with bounty,
Pecans, wild grapes, and poke,
And wicked wild tornadoes
To scare off fickle folk!
©MMVI by Walden
Not JUST a poem, Walden, but an annotated Hyperpoem!
Excellent!
Never heard of pokeberries before. Interesting.
djm
Don’t eat them… they make you sick… poke salad will too, if you don’t cook it right.
I’m glad to know what tornadoes are for.
That is the best poem I’ve read on here in weeks. 
So what about the wind blowing the waving wheat into the elephant’s eyes and all that stuff? Aren’t you supposed to sing and dance around in a Shirley Jones outfit when performing these things? 
djm
Maybe so, but the typical tornado is a small one. The biggest, most destructive ones are often hidden behind a wall cloud, or are the same width from top to bottom (or even wider at the bottom), or may even have no condensation funnel at all. One of the things that makes them so dangerous is that they often “don’t look like a tornado”.
-Brass (trained storm spotter)
Do you say “PEE-can”, PEE-con, p’CON or a different varient?
It’s p’cahn. The old spelling was pacan.
Speaking of Tornadoes..
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0517/buncrana.html
Unheard of I tell ye.
The End is nigh.
Slan,
D. 
It has to be p’cahn, or the meter stumbles. But p’cahn is how all right-thinking folks say it, anyway.
Excellent poem, Walden. Especially the tornado part.
Now, what happened to the Katy avatar. I know I didn’t hallucinate it. The Katy ran smack through Oklahoma.
Everyone knows that a “pee-can” is what you take with you on very long drives for just in case.
p’cahn
pee-can
That top picture makes me want pie.
It came and went.
Yeah, I live near it.
At first I read that as, “That top picture makes me want to pie.” Laughed my a$$ off.
Then I read it correctly. sigh
Unless you’re a woman. 
So? There are alway alternatives. Nitpicker.