Last Week's Oranges

Gold cherry

By Ewan

Tue, 24 Feb 2026
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11 comments
 

Roll up, roll up, buy the latest foodie fad!
Blueberries, walnuts, Omega five!
This is the stuff that keeps you alive!
Vitamins, supplements, protein in shakes,
they’ll keep us alive, whatever it takes!
Short-cut slimming, bulking-up boosts,
only eat the chickens coming home to roost.
Read all the info-mercials, scrolling on your phone
Hu-man cannot live by bread alone.
We do all this to fool ourselves 
we won’t be last week’s oranges
rotting on the shelves. 

Certificate U
Poem
Not Quite Good Enough
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by marandina on

Ah yes...foodie fads. Don't really do 'em meself. Did you read that piece in the Sunday Times about Helga Sands? 87-yr-old spending a King's ransom trying to live forever. Rejuvenation cocktail in Panama for £300,000 coming up. 

Enjoyed the poem, of course. Rhythm and intent. Nicely done, Ewan.

 

Submitted by Ewan on

  it'd be mad if (and I hope it doesn't) one of her "treatments" is what carries her off. I thought she looked like Nefertiti - does now, I mean.
Worse still are the tech bros: have you seen them? They look like aliens. Maybe they are.

Anyway, glad you read it. I might stick it on soundcloud and pretend to be JCC ... again.

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Submitted by GlosKat on

Oranges are not the only fruit.  Some are clockwork. Al Stewart (strange coincidence, only just talking about him to Turlough the other day).  

That's all I can think of.

 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

  Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
Orange Wednesday Leslie Thomas
The Orange Girl Jostein Gardner
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris
Oranges Boranges - song from 70's TV show
I Am Curious Oranj The Fall album title
Last Week's Oranges ^
My Life in Orange - Tim Guest: is autobiography

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Submitted by GlosKat on

So not the Al Stewart album Orange then ?  Maybe you're all too young smiley

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 I'm not officially old for at least a fortnight, when I'll be 65.

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Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Old at 65? Get away!. Anyway, best wishes on your forthcoming birthday from a 91-year-old fossil.

Cheers, Luigi

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Ewan turns wellness guru for this Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 very much Indeed

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Submitted by lenchenelf on

and clemantines yield an intense sweetness if juiced when slightly wrinkledwink

I hit that magic number in January, and suspect it may be downhill from here, pass me that elixir of youth, Tea laugh

Clever as always Ewan

Best

Lena

 

Submitted by lenchenelf on

comment entered twice, again! I obviously enjoyed the poem.​

Best

Lena