Reanimated Lavender Granola Switchblade Nun rides again.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Recipe



A kitchen is a fine place to hatch a plot.

I will be your confederate--

The most agreeable evil

You ever met.


The sun falls through the curtains

Like fingertips on skin,

As we bring out the magicks--

Sugar,

Flour,

Cinnamon.


We work as if we were zealots

In basements, printing up pamphlets,

For the purblind left, or the palsied right--

Except that we are subversives

Of a different stripe.


We will lull them,

Make them lazy--

Say there's no more,

Make them crazy;


Then, when they are helpless,

We shall withdraw and decide our demands--

They shall be many,

And capricious;

Not from need, these wicked plans, but simply because

We can.

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Art by Pablo Picasso

16 comments:

  1. Cookies are a fine weapon...so innocent.

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  2. Very tricky! I love it when I see that you have a new post!

    This is a great one!

    Secretia

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  3. Baked goods would hold me captive. And I can only imagine the baker's capricious demands ;)

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  4. The most agreeable evil ever- I love that. Beautiful!

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  5. Miss Scarlet, in the kitchen, with a meat cleaver...

    Let's play Clue, Miss Shay! ;)

    Your beautiful poetry has, once again, inspired me.

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  6. I absolutely love this, Shay. What a delightful, playful rhythm it has! Excellent. :-)

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  7. Ah if you are the most agreeable evil met then I would have to say on my own wicked friends I would have to lay my bet.

    They plot, they hatch, they are weird, they all want and to devise a plan to flea dip my beard.

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  8. This gave me shivers and I'm not even sure why. But that's the magic of good poetry. It just is. And does.

    p.s. a slight scheduling bump, scary clown this coming Monday. really!!

    xo

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  9. Sugar, flour and cinnamon? You can't go wrong with those.

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  10. Oh a brilliant plan, hatched in a kitchen with cooking magick? Can it be? Of course..with you and me...and why...well you said it..we can..

    love ya
    g

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  11. I do so love poetry subcribing to the simple acts in living.....this is a wonderful little piece of you.

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