
I.
Coriander: A List Poem
It tastes of thirsty earth
Steam vapour from smokestacks
White porcelain bowls of coal tar soap
Pine-scented kitchen spray
Scorched hair
It’s overwhelming, like a Chihuahua
Like a static shock
It’s verbless and going nowhere
It’s corrosive as boiled lemon sweets
Or vinegar
It smells of microbes in a
plastic drinks bottle
It’s a hepped-up mob
It’s a photograph of your mother,
bleached white from the sun
It’s a euphemism for holy shit
II.
Suits
Gave all of his old suits
to charity.
A few double-breasted, too.
One day we might
meet his suit walking
up the street.
Written for I.) NaPoWriMo Day 20: Anthropomorphise a kind of food, and II.) Writers’ Digest “write a poem using 3 of these 6 words Content Double Guide Meet Pump Suit” ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #glopowrimo #napowrimo on Twitter
22 responses to “GloPoWriMo Day 20: Icky Food and 3 of 6 Words”
Did you get a cookbook for Easter? 🤣
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Hey! What? Are we supposed to get gifts at Easter?
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It’s the law!
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I might have to go by myself something.
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You deserve it.
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I’m glad I have that in writing.
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you really don’t like coriander. 😀 it seems to be one of those divisive foods. I love Vietnamese food and that is jampacked with… how did you put it? eumphemisms for holy shit! Great poem. I loved how you evoke emotion. And the one about the suits is sweet.
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It’s apparently a DNA/genetic hiccup that makes coriander taste like soap, and it does … and the taste lasts for hours. It’s a gene cluster called OR6A2, reacting to aldehyde chemicals.
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huh! fascinating!
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I agree about coriander! I don’t mind the ‘thirsty earth’ flavour too much, it’s the ‘pine-scented kitchen spray’ and ‘scorched hair’ that make me gag! I love ‘it’s verbless and going nowhere ‘. Suits was wistful.
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I have to admit that verbless and going nowhere made me grin. All set for tomorrow?
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I’m still waiting for my swan results, but I think they will only contact me if either of them is positive. But I’m ready. 😒
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Smile. 🥰 This is one condition that doctors can actually fix!
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Sooo… That’s a definite ‘NO’ for the coriander then, eh? I’m with you.
For me it’s turnip & rutabaga, though I can stand potato & carrot, so it’s not just their root-veggie status. Nicely done, Misk. Thanks.
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Don’t know about this rutabaga; sounds toxic. Whole baby turnips braised with a pot roasted chicken is good.
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Great writing, but I love corriander, especially fresh. I like the way when you add it to hot oil it smells like jam roly-poly! 😂
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You’re obviously missing the OR6A2 gene cluster, or that roly-poly is off.
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😂 I have got a bit of a cold at the moment.
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Tim Spector says 50% of people who think they have a cold right now actually have Covid. That’s based on algorithms from King’s College London. 😳
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I took one of my last free tests today…negative.
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Excellent. Hope you’re feeling better very soon.
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Thank you. As long as it doesn’t turn into man flu, I will be fine.
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