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Waitrose Encounter

by The Walrus 

Posted: 08 March 2004
Word Count: 124
Summary: Never ceases to amaze me, how the ordinary can become the extraordinary.


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I was inspecting,
or rather, more accurately,
fondling a melon.
Quite engrossed in fact
when I heard my name
and swung instantaneously
to seek the voice
that spoke the word -
that word so embedded,
so engrained.

Surreptitious glances
of respective trolley fodder
while pursuing the delightful banter
springing from the unexpected encounter,
smiling in tango while words
slipped effortlessly into pirouettes.

How lovely! I said,
sailing around the world!
How exciting!

And you?, he said
Your plans?

I replied with glinting unrepentant eyes,
distracted as I was
by the pinging of sunbeams
off the glossy aubergines
enchanted by the courgettes capering,
the artichokes misbehaving.

I have none.

A perplexing pause preceded
the spontaneous combustion of complicit jocularity
while fellow shoppers passed by,
perplexed.






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roovacrag at 20:30 on 08 March 2004  Report this post
Christina good one.
Never thought of you as fondling a melon.
Good poem,can actually see you in the super market, chatting to an old friend.
Nice one xxxxxxxxxxx Alice(stanley lol)

The Walrus at 20:45 on 08 March 2004  Report this post
Stanley, you should know me better.

Thanks.

The Walrus
xx

Fearless at 20:53 on 08 March 2004  Report this post
Some things you can't beat, and melon fondling is one of them. I liked the gentle sing-song nature of the piece. Yes, fruit takes on a life of its own when one engages in trolley banter. Nice piece.

fearless

igbit33 at 20:54 on 08 March 2004  Report this post
An amusing and well crafted poem. Been there myself, it can be most irritating. Loved the 'With glinting unrepentant eyes,' line.

Iggy. xx

olebut at 23:23 on 08 March 2004  Report this post
so it was you fondling the melons

again a lovley view of life as it almost is descriptive and full of sensuality

thanks for sharing it

david

Lee Tee Vee at 08:06 on 09 March 2004  Report this post
Sad, almost ... melancholy (melon-choly, geddit?) A really beautiful poem of what could be an any day scene.

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Just read again. You should be proud of this piece, it's bloody magnificent.


The Walrus at 09:03 on 09 March 2004  Report this post
Thanks guys, really pleased you liked it. (Lee Tee Vee there is no excuse for 'melancholy'... lol (nearly choked on my toast.)

The Walrus

Skeetr at 11:02 on 09 March 2004  Report this post

Walrus,

Enough said about fondling melons, for me to keep my raunchy comments to myself. But my goodness -- what of those misbehaving artichokes! Great images, Walrus... makes Sainsbury's feel like a whole different place all of a sudden. I particularly liked how you handled the interaction between the two shoppers -- the tender and awkward moments (reinforced by harder words and images like "respective trolley fodder") and the smoothing out of their 'intercourse' (pardon me) with smoother images like "the glossy aubergines" -- and, I feel, as a reader, like one of those perplexed passers-by -- just as I should; this being a strangely public-private interaction.

Smith

The Walrus at 15:17 on 09 March 2004  Report this post
Smith

One does one's best to shock the mild folk and spice up the mundane things in life. Bit like hoovering naked or ambushing the postman with a Kalashnakov water pistol.

Have fun on your next trip to Sainsburys.

Thanks for your comment, enjoyed it very much.

The Walrus


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