for S*tchel
What a shame that
this rosy-skinned fruit
— spread thin over
the sole of your tiny
shoe by the weight of
an airy toddler’s
gambolâ€â€was not a
plump Ortega grape.
Because while daddy
hates to mop, he does,
in fact, love him some
wine!
—after lunch, April 6 ‘05
Throw in some Vodka, some worcestershire sauce, a little lemon, a good dash of tabasco and a stalk of celery.. and enjoy a nice Bloody Mary instead..
I was thinking of Satchel as a grape-stomper, and now I have that creepy dancing baby in my head. Great.
”…airy toddler’s gambol”
Truly a work of art.
Jeff, I think without your efforts, any number of obscure, rarely used words would have dropped out of the English language and been forgotten entirely… ’Gambol‘.. Heh.. Where else but Protein Wisdom ? ….
Satchel did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
But beware the Jabberwock!
– with apologies to Lewis Carroll
Is his middle name Paige?
No. But he was named for Satchel Paige.
And I like the word gambol. Though I don’t recall the last time I used it before this.
plump Ortega grape
Right behind gambol for delight factor.
For me, it’s a tossup between plump Ortega grape airy toddler gambol. I particularly like the vowels. Combined with the consonants. Really. Great use of sound patterns. I think on the whole though, I’ll come down on the side of plump Ortega grape if only to find something to disagree with Ana about.
there’s an and missing between the two Jeff phrases in the first sentence of my post.
Lots of o’s. Like the little tomato itself. You could only get more o’s in a spaghettio’s poem. And I don’t think that the wee cherub eats spaghettio’s.
spam: does. I stand corrected.
lots of back vowels: a/o/u,creating a feeling of lushness, copiousness, plenty. The p’s and g’s in the plump Ortega grape tipped the scale for me.
Beautiful poem.
Had this happened on a highly-polished produce aisle in Alfalfa’s, you could buy an entire subdivision in Longmont.
What is this Alfalfa’s of the highly polished floors O spirit of Pundaemonium?
Upscale organic grocery chain. See also “Personal Injury Attorneys – “Slip and Fall” – in Denver Yellow Pages.
Got lots of lawyers out there do you?
Lawyers hate vowels. Particularly i/o/u.
plump Ortega grape is a gift to the lips. No arguement there.
But toddlers airy gambol has the benefit of content. The content being that happy stompin’ tot.
love him some
wine!
is the curl on the duck’s tail. Did he say “wait for it”?
Then we agree on sound, content, and ducktail.
OK you guys.. Now read Infinite Jest using the same critical eye you use above… hahahaha that ought to keep you busy for about 30 years..
Turing word: years
The ghost in the machine knows what I mean when I say at LEAST 30 years…