Good Humor Ice Cream Trucks
Duwand Works for Good Humor, Inc by Lashon Daley
Duwand wasn’t the must disgruntled employee at Good Humor, Inc. His position as a Quality Control Inspector at the conveyor belt had its benefits. He was never asked to lift anything like the stock boys who wore back braces, nor was he ever blamed for anything– his supervisor was held responsible for all of his mistakes and those of the other 19 employees just like him.
Duwand’s job description stated 2 things: 1) Verify that Good Humor, Inc. is properly spelled and punctuated on each ice cream sandwich package wrapper and 2) Notify your supervisor when it is not.
From the age of 14, Duwand worked for Good Humor, Inc. at the conveyor belt. Since 1929, when the company opened its New York distribution center, Duwand read and re-read the words Good Humor, Inc. 5,980,003 times. He could spell it backwards in 4 seconds. He created 213 words from the letters and composed several different jingles based on its spelling. My ice cream has a first name, it’s G-o-o-od…
So after forty-three years of uneventful service, it caught all of Good Humor, Inc.’s 147 New York employees by surprise when Duwand drove a fleet of Good Humor, Inc. ice cream trucks off of a pier. › Continue reading
Once (Always) by Kate Overgaard
Lost boy,
Shipwreck in my life.
When your little hand found mine,
Suddenly
We were home,
You and I,
Meant to be
Tied with a seemingly tenuous knot,
Not of blood or biology,
But meant to be.
The current
Dragged you under and away
And—eyes closed—
My fingers released you.
Leaving me to drown in the loss of you,
Never to utter goodbye to you.
A rusted reef of ice cream whispers
In the depths of the Rockaways,
Cradled in the cool waves
Around my beating heart,
Still drowning.
About the Author
Kate Overgaard is an English teacher who is currently working on her M.A. in Creative Writing through Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in New Jersey.
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