Free verse № 11418
Work
She eases me to her breasts
as a mother would a wounded child.
This has been one of those days
and it's about work, always about
being employed and that slip
that comes around when your time
runs out and the last paycheck
that dwindles more each day
because of the phone service
and support the daughter and
former wife need to get by, and
about the change gathered from
the penny jar and coat pockets
just to buy cigarettes and have
bus money to travel twelve blocks
on a freezing night to eat a warm
meal from a woman who disappeared
four months prior with a man
driving a red truck, after a year or so
of things not working out.
Against her the hollow resonation
of something long faded, a body
whose rhythmic dance once
swayed easy with my touch,
even when the rent was late and
we sat nights laughing crazy in the dark.
Then it was about work and being
under qualified, always about that
fifty cent annual raise and
skipping time on the coffee break,
and it's about leaving this woman
just after midnight when the last whistle
shocks the cold with a metallic moan.
18 comments
(Bachus's favorite soup)
Kotosoupa Avgolemono:
(Greek traditional Chicken and rice soup)
What you need:
1 stewing chicken, 6 c.broth, 1 c. rice, 3 eggs, seperated, juice of one lemon(my favorite aspect, <stoner short cut add lemon juice to campel's chicken noodle w/rice>), salt & pepper to taste.
Boil chicken until cooked. remove chicken and let cool. boil 6 cups of broth and add one cup of rice. add salt & p to taste. When rice is cooked, lower heat to simmer. put 3 egg whites in mixing bowl and beat until stiff. then add the yolks, then add juice of one lemon slowly; beating well. then add the yolks, then add juice of one lemon slowly; beating well. then add the broth, a littla at a time, beating well, until most of the broth is used. Pour this mixture back into pot, stirring well. Pieces of chicken may now be added to soup if desired.
"That all-softening overpowering knell, the tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell." Lord Byron (enjoy the recipe friend, and the poem was great and bountiful, like this soup! 9/10!
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that dwindles more each day
because of the phone service
and support the daughter and
former wife need to get by." I think it's brilliant. It has a great rhythm! Never thought the woes of paying bills could sound so purty. =)
Love ErgoErgun
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