Black Poetry : plum wine @ prime time...4 laurie jones

alyce

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she fluffed the pillows
in her uneasy chair
poured herself a glass of
plum wine

heaved a sigh
and dropped her body
down into a catatonic slump....

the day before the hump

was the worst day in modern history
(& she coulda sworn yesterday was a stone *****)

and now it don't look like
the night's gonna end

the people walk in darkness

and, before the debris and the soot, it was
ignorance that obscured the light

(and that schitt wasn't even right)

her head was splitting
back sore
feet all swole
she could feel the beginnings
of a scream welling inside
her throat

didn't want that sour
taste back up in her mouth
again...

so she took a sip and as the
warm, sweet poison burned her
belly, she bit her lip

and the TV droned on; watching
her struggle with the anger,
hurt, the fear,

those grim messages fed
her throbbing dread

"is the world really coming to an end?"

"shole is baby, and we gonna see
signs and wonders chile...terrible
signs and wonders"...

so she took another taste
of sweet plum wine
waiting for the glaze to coat
her eyes and numb her mind...


Alyce, (c) 2001
 
what I absolutely love about this piece is the singularity of the message. So much of our impressions of these past few days events have been based on our reactions to the media reports that have bombarded our television screen...

In the midst of all of this..there she sits...slumped over in her not so easy chair...sipping her plum wine and weighing the flavours of it....the bitter tastes of life on the tip of her tongue

Her thoughts..this reality...she wants to dull the nonsense of it...with the liquor...she is powerless to change the changes...except to pour herself another sip...of plum wine

I really love this one A!!

*cheers*

:toast:
 

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