A SANDWICH, A KEY, AND A SCARF

[SivaRamanathan]

Edited

It is Chemotherapy

A few hundred children
with scarves on their heads
what do you make of it ?

As I play with the key
your teeth makes impressions
on the sandwich
a line of poetry zooms in my head.

I see balloons in their hands
and pain in their throats.






Original

O my God
it is Chemotherapy
and it's not funny.

A few hundred children
with scarves on their heads
what do you make of it ?

As I play with the key
your teeth makes impressions
on the sandwich
a line of poetry zooms in my head.

I see balloons in their hands
and pain in their throats.

[Michael (MV)]

 
Hi Siva,

liked this upon my 1st reading yesterday

didn't have time to comment

still don't

hope to soon



rhythmic echoes of the lion the witch the wardrobe




Michael (MV)


 
 
 
 
 

[SivaRamanathan]

Michael

Your comments are a puzzle,always.Yes I like it.To wait to find out what this means

the lion the witch the wardrobe


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chron ... e_Wardrobe

S

[Michael (MV)]

 
Hi Siva,


the cadence of the 3 items in the poem's title:

"rhythmic echoes of the lion the witch the wardrobe"



Perhaps the line "and it's not funny" is editorial and not needed.



Your poem is stark & poignant; recalls to me Stan Rice, in particular "Duet on Iberville Street" :

The man in black leather
Buying a rat to feed his python
Does not dwell on particulars.
Any rat will do.
While walking back from the pet store
I see a man in a hotel garage
Carving a swan in a block of ice
With a chain saw.


and now I also hear in the cadence of A SANDWICH, A KEY, AND A SCARF another titular echo of 3 :

the good the bad and the ugly


and the humane



Michael (MV)

Michael

Your comments are a puzzle,always.Yes I like it.To wait to find out what this means

the lion the witch the wardrobe


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chron ... e_Wardrobe

S

 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[shriiram]

But I think the contrast here is that there is a semblance of a relationship between 'the lion the witch the wardrobe' or the 'the good the bad and the ugly'. And there is none between 'A SANDWICH, A KEY, AND A SCARF', other than the obvious construed by the poet.

[SivaRamanathan]

Michael
Thank you. I did not even know that there is poetry in it.

Sriiram
I know what Michael says hold good and I also like your observation.

S