To one cup of water,
Add
A stick of cinnamon
Two cloves
One bay leaf
A tsp each of sugar and minced ginger
A tsp of dust tea
Half a cup of milk
Set to boil.
***
Sit in
The living room
with
Your phone
The newspaper
A pen
A book
***
On the phone, look out for
Your favourite analyst’s commentary of the day
Use the anagram solver (which doesn’t make the crossword much easier)
See a recipe video.
Switch
To the newspaper.
Skim the headlines
Look up a Dutch roll.
Resume reading your book.
***
There’s a change in the air.
Look around.
Go back to the book.
Read a few lines.
Put it aside.
On the phone
Open Facebook
Click on the name of the intellectual you will not follow
And begin reading their post on why it’s necessary to dislike a certain someone who just died.
Something’s the matter,
But continue reading.
You have to keep up.
Death is no reason
To stop rehashing old grudges.
Stop!
Leap up
Go to the kitchen
The tea is dead,
But you can salvage the saucepan.
Curse yourself, curse the stove, curse the day.
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DeleteBeautiful. Sounds like a poem!!
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