This little fish,
Swimming now in olive oil.
Yum!
2. The Next Day
A charming custom,
A small rakija in the morning --
I'll take coffee, thanks!
(Ed. note: The first poem deals with the barbarous habit of eating fellow sentient beings once widely practiced at all levels of world society. Here the poet appears to anticipate and relish such ingestion.
The second poem refers to the intake of ethyl alcohol, here a poison distilled from fermented grape marc with debilitating, short and long term mental and physical effects. Also once a wide-spread practice. The attitude of the poet here is apparently health conscious, or perhaps ironic, or perhaps remorseful.)
1 comment:
great post. that is some perceptive editor!
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