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IT'S JUST WRONG

 

Some foods are supposed to come in the one colour

and when they're not it feels just wrong, like touring

the city centre seeing an iguana stuck up a tree or four

legs tied with orange tape or shadows with leather pouches

looking after themselves or a six foot tall naked courgette

or my Father lying like a sharp Mafioso in the funeral parlour.



Take green beer. I know it's regular beer with flavourless

chlorella algae or artificial No 3 added as colouring

yet when I have a sip it tastes off and I think of mould,

the same thing happens with purple ketchup or flour,

pink butter is something I can't imagine being using by a sous

chef and black tomatoes look like rocks, testicles or tumours.

◄ RICHARD'S COMPLAINT

THE RED LADY OF PAVILAND ►

Comments

<Deleted User> (5646)

Fri 10th Apr 2009 12:07

Hi Rodney,
have you been meditating?
The things you describe here are often seen as the unexplained and incomprehensible but there's always a reason for it to be there in whatever texture or colour it shows itself as.

Not seen you on here for a while. Hope you're well.
Janet.x

<Deleted User>

Thu 9th Apr 2009 21:20

I am sorry that you see the poem, 'Sympathy Synchronicity' as 'just advice'
It wasn't written in that context, it's what is happening to me 'now', and as a poet, I put my thoughts and feelings into words.
I didn't choose to get cancer so I could write about it, in fact, this is the first thing that I have written, about it, since being diagnosed, over two years ago.
I write, depending on my mood, yesterday, I was in a 'silly mood, so I wrote, 'Please Leave Me Alone'
Today I felt like shit, so I wrote, 'Sympathy Synchronicity'
I well, you please everyone, and i don't try to.
90% of what I write, and have written, over the years, is based on 'experience' which I find is the best way to express poetry.
Experience in life, counts for a lot, if you choose to write poetry, in my opinion.
I find, 'Mind The Gap', is good advice, when travelling on the underground, but it is something, I have yet to experience, so I won't be writing about it.

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