Small Potatoes

By Ed Crane

Thu, 11 Jun 2015
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Breaking open an oven crisp French

stick and separating it into ragged

pieces, I spread ripe Camembert ooze

over its cereal countryman savouring

the salty ammoniacal smell and taste.

 

Pouring some contents of a decorked

bottle of '03 mongrel Corbieres wine

into an IKEA up-market wine glass

the size of a half pint bitter jug, I begin

to fret, "This will no doubt end up with

 

nightmares tonight." But upon reflection

I consider it a small potatoes price to

pay for hazing out life's ongoing bad-trip.

 

 

Certificate PG
Poem
Philosophy

Comments

Submitted by Deliberately Ev... on

Great poem and a summary of my lunch and dinner today including the IKEA wine glass. Fab! Btw - cheese giving you nightmares is a myth. Scientists tested the theory using a variety of different cheeses and found that contrary to hindering sleep it actually aided it, although some cheeses were better than others. I can't remember if it commented on cammenbert of not. 

The beat of your heart is the mellifluent rhythm to my soul.

Submitted by Ed Crane on

I hope you enjoyed your lunch with no bad dreams later.

I have to admit I have on a couple of occasions had nighmare after eating chees, but I expect it was due to volume rather than the actual cheese!

 

Submitted by love_writing on

I found where you break the line really effective at emphasising words particularly in the first stanza.

A glug or two (or three!) of wine sounds just what is needed after a hard day- you can almost hear that being poured and the descriptive tearing of the bread. 

love_writing

Submitted by Ed Crane on

Your kind comment about the way I set this out is very much appreciated.

Ed

 

Submitted by Bee on

ammoniacal, oozey Camembert, and a warm, crispy bread that's torn, not cut - with a glass of red wine -dreamy, and neatly written. And did you just take that photo of your cheeses and wine? Think I'll join you.

Bee

Submitted by Ed Crane on

Taking a good wine with a good cheese is great, however I don't do it nearly as often as I would like to.

The photo was from a photo-stock free site . . . . I ate my cheese wink

Best wishes

Ed

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

Starving! Some delicious sensory language and now long for all of it on a crammed plate. Never mind that it's 3am. Often wonder if the nightmare theory's scientifically sound.

 

Submitted by Ed Crane on

I don't think I could eat cheese a three in the morning, but I'm willing to give it a try!

I doubt the nighmare stories are anything more than old wives tales, but I am sure if you eat too muc you'll have a bad night (I certainly have).

Cheers

Ed