Sunday, January 6, 2019
HUMONGOUS BURNT SIENNA TURD
How sadly festive is the geriatric pensione!
Does the pensione make you shiver?
Does it?
I saw the seaside sentinels
Of my generation fall.
How I mourned the old hotel.
How I mourned our breezy apartment
Overlooking the shoreline slum.
It makes me shiver now.
The pensione smells
On account of old farts
Blasting off farts.
The cafe is a pig trough.
Down down down
Into the bowels they waddle
The chubby, the oily, the endomorphic.
I saw the flavor of my island destroyed.
Are you upset by how
greasy the food is now
and how it all tastes like McShitburger?
Does it tear you apart to see
the once proud resort
pulled under by a tsunami of salami?
A humongous
Burnt sienna turd?
The winds blew through
But they didn't erase the memories.
So blow out the candles
Another year has passed.
The die is cast.
The pensione awaits.
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Very artsy fartsy … now go and do sumthin bout it says this Alberta cat and her cat Theo.
ReplyDeleteIt's literally fartsy...
Deletebut that die is cast
life is still a blast
unless it's the old folks firing 'em off again
Oh, that title made me chuckle primarily. Quite an interesting take on the idea and memories of all that has gone and all that has turned into a product of mass consumption.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got a grin out of it!
DeleteOh the memories of its heyday will never fade, no matter how decrepit it and its aging actors become.
ReplyDeleteOr how decrepit we become--lol
DeleteThank God for memories...
ReplyDeleteAt a certain point, that's all that's left.
DeleteThis one made me smile.
ReplyDeleteThat was my intention. Thanks, Vicki
DeleteYou tell it like it is, for which I am grateful.
ReplyDeleteThe way it was and still is--lol
DeleteHow funny and dark at the same time. I confess to having to look up "pensione." A fun read. Well crafted!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Colleen! I guess funny and dark describes me as well!
DeleteFunny and dark indeed, and whimsical--but your message is solid, and when the world changes around us, we can deal with it with humor or pathos, our choice. A second reading made me smile even wider.
ReplyDeleteHumor and pathos go hand in hand...thanks for smiling twice!
DeleteFun and flatulence and a healthy dose of anger...enjoyed this!
ReplyDeleteFun and flatulence...now there's a line I can use somewhere...hope you don't mind if I borrow!
DeleteAngst cloaked in humor! Very clever.
ReplyDeleteThank you, my dahlink!
DeleteThank goodness for memories ..
ReplyDeleteI'll remember that.
DeleteKeeping it dark, but psinting a smile on it. Nice piece...
ReplyDeleteThank you, my friend. It is only from darkness that we proceed toward the light.
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