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Hors d`oeuvre
Posted: 30 April 2005
Word Count: 58
Summary: Just a thought as I enjoyed my starter!
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Those huge black eyes
as perfectly formed
as the highest snooker ball.
Gazing at me as I tear
your body apart. Your body
protected against the strongest ocean
fails beneath my hand. Your digestive
system disgusts me, as if I have the right.
A mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup
drowns your last chance
and I sit back, replete.
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 Okkervil at 10:21 on 01 May 2005
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Is that pink stuff nothing classier than mayonnaise and ketchup? I thought it was sauce made out of other prawns. That'd be ironic, or something. Though I haven't put much thought towards the matter since I was about five at my Uncle's wedding, and yeah, I didn't even touch them, I just watched mum in wide-eyed horror as she gripped its still-strangely-animated head and yanked on it's tail. Lizards can lose their tails to escape predators, but if a prawn tried that, he'd quickly learn that his brains didn't hold as much allegience to the inside of his head as to his rear end. Prawns are pitiful creatures. And so the brazen lack-of-remorse here is kinda funny, as well as the blustery-boastery of exerting power over something as big as a finger. 'Your digestive system disgusts me, as if I have the right' - yeah, you tell that prawn, Joanie!
Bye!
James
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tinyclanger at 11:50 on 01 May 2005
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Ugh! Can't bear to eat prawns - and this brings back why. Yuk!
Just the thought of ripping them apart....
I too like the hoplessness of this, and the "I'm almost-sorry, but I'm not quite sorry enough" tone.
"As if I have the right" is very clever, my favourite bit. Stays with me.
x
tc
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 joanie at 13:12 on 01 May 2005
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Thanks, James and tc. The thing is, I don't like eating prawns if you have to pull them apart, but they were on the reduced-almost-out-of-date counter, so what could I do??
I daren't even think about the 'Jamie Oliver's Five Hour Lamb' which is sitting in my oven as I write; I have just driven past fields of beautiful quite newly-born lambs! Oh, no!
Thanks for reading! I appreciate it.
joanie
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