Monday, September 01, 2014
Pencils and crayons and… everything!
Wow! 16 great haikus last week about school supplies… but the one that intrigued me the most was this, from "Renata Tebaldi":
I went to high school,
Without my lunch. Hallelujah
for Potter's Drug Store.
Where succulent tuna
Salad lived with barbeque
Potato chips and
Pickles and icy
Coca Cola in shapely
Green glasses behind
The lunch counter and
Its white formica glory.
The round red stools like
Swiveling contraband
Mushrooms on slender steel
Stems,gateway to Flirt.
Lunch is not,so they
Say the most important meal.
But the lore of it
Lingers like some legend
More than any algebraic
Theorem or chart.
I went to high school,
Without my lunch. Hallelujah
for Potter's Drug Store.
Where succulent tuna
Salad lived with barbeque
Potato chips and
Pickles and icy
Coca Cola in shapely
Green glasses behind
The lunch counter and
Its white formica glory.
The round red stools like
Swiveling contraband
Mushrooms on slender steel
Stems,gateway to Flirt.
Lunch is not,so they
Say the most important meal.
But the lore of it
Lingers like some legend
More than any algebraic
Theorem or chart.
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What a great choice, the name too...Renata Tebaldi had a voice so beautiful it moves you to tears every time you listen!! Those red stools ”mushrooms on slender steel stems” made me want to swirl and laugh and flirt. Brilliant!
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