From the collection The Immediate and No Sooner, 2021.
Shadorma 292
6/11/20
among the fish
flashing swishing swim
in the water
who it is
would stay awash avoid hook
Look out! whirl away
Shadorma 293
6/11/20
On purpose
I choose the soothe cake
for someone
who longs for
the angst cake. Try it, I say.
Take a nice big slice.
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😂 the 2nd one!
Yes. I’ve eaten way too much angst cake. Now I try to stick with soothe in all flavors.
Going to bake me some of that!
The first one conjures up a very pleasing visual image of fish sparkling in the sun. The second one makes me think of Alice in Wonderland and the various transformative edible choices she makes. We should always aim to choose the soothe cake. It is so much tastier.
Yes. I wish both to serve and eat soothe cake.
Ha! I know some folks that should be held down and force fed the sooth cake!!
Yes. Sadly I have been that person. Now trying to stay on the diet of neither serving nor eating angst cake!
The problem with angst cake is it gets stuck in your teeth, like melancholic seaweed.
And no one wants to get close enough to you to let you know there is green stuff hanging there like a parasite of some kind.