i’m also a poet as well as the swine who wrote the shopping list (see above).
i like to emulate the simplicity of it (the list).
i thought to present ‘milk/bread/sugar/eggs’ as a poem
but didn’t have the stomach for it, the confidence that i was saying something worthwhile.
i turn my back to the lake for the disused football pitch
so i can think.
i get a call from my stepdad that someone’s dead i thought was dead already.
so i get off the bench.
if i could be a different animal, i’d be a duck.
have I missed something? what is the ‘see above’ ? I love shopping lists, often collecting them when found (strangers) and their full shop receipts, giving out much to contemplate about the life I’ll likely never know.
Hi Dean,
No, you havn’t missed anything. I wrote this poem at the end of an old shopping list I made. Ive looked at others’ lists too; feels strange – seeing things on it i never buy.
I love this, but (declaring a bias) I poemised a brunch order.
It’s not always about content. Anything said well (or beautifully, or shockingly, or in a new or interesting way) is worth reading. Anything you feel the need to say is worth saying.
thanks emjay,
i think i remember your brunch poem. I agree that there can be beauty in the way something’s expressed, regardless of what is said. not always, of course