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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Alan Britt writes


GO FIGURE

Blue star redirects immigrants through
onion fields the size of galaxies light years
away, that nefarious lot with the voices
of Camellia, Roberto & Ramon among
the first to arrive.

Then a diesel fart upends everything:
eyeballs swirl like martini olives around
the latest political storm notwithstanding
with or without understanding that olives
have the IQ of a toothpick whittled
from common poplar, toothpick, sans
branches & leaves to confuse us,
toothpick!

When the real antennae goes up,
I’ll consider trading this one in.

Image result for martini eyeball olives paintings
-- Anthony Iatridis

1 comment:

  1. Ernest Hemingway liked his martinis very dry. Reputedly he said that the proper ratio was that if the gin were the size of an eyeball the vermouth would be the size of a tear. More specifically (as in his 1951 novel "Across the River and into the Trees," he wanted a Montgomery, with a 15:1 proportion -- the reference was to the British field marshal Bernard Law Montgomery who (Hemingway thought) would not attack his foe unless he had a 15:1 advantage.

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