OT - a relatively old poem
[In a relative sense, this is a really, really old poem. And maybe the names have been changed to protect the innocent. But for the hell of it, here it is....]
O T
I sit in the sun on my back patio
drinking the last of Geri's white wine
watching her plant a foxglove
bending over.
There's a jar of dried pennyroyal leaves
just inside
on our basement shelf.
I've been thinking of making, oh, tea of it
for two or three years.
Why haven't I?
Maybe I'm afraid
of leaving here.
So I sit drinking the last of Geri's white wine
and wonder if she'll even notice
what she'll say if she does.
I imagine she's tired of my whine
wishing or afraid I'll tire of hers.
Until then,
bottoms up.
O T
I sit in the sun on my back patio
drinking the last of Geri's white wine
watching her plant a foxglove
bending over.
There's a jar of dried pennyroyal leaves
just inside
on our basement shelf.
I've been thinking of making, oh, tea of it
for two or three years.
Why haven't I?
Maybe I'm afraid
of leaving here.
So I sit drinking the last of Geri's white wine
and wonder if she'll even notice
what she'll say if she does.
I imagine she's tired of my whine
wishing or afraid I'll tire of hers.
Until then,
bottoms up.
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 5/15/2009 9:01 PM 
Categories: Poetry by JC
Tags: Cleveland Poetry OT Elyria
Categories: Poetry by JC
Tags: Cleveland Poetry OT Elyria
Sweet word play. Here's a toast to you...cheers!
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Thanks, Stacey!
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Well.. looked up pennyroyal and its medicinal uses... hmmmm.. Got this one..
Unfortunately these sorts of things make for good poetry...
Nice one..
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It can be poisonous - but what can't, if consumed in sufficient quantities?
There's a song by Nirvana about PR tea: "Sit and and drink pennyroyal tea / I'm anemic royalty."
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cool thanks! Not heard this one before.. you I've lived under a rock.
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forgot the word... know..
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No one's heard this before. Consider it a debut.
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Nirvana has great voice and a very nice guitar that he plays well. Does pennyroyal tea taste like mint tea? Watch out for foxglove/digitalis. The medical use is for heart problems.
Mess around with some plants and you can get poison ivy. Remember that??
Whine with wine but liquor is quicker.
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i've got the whine and the tea but no wine.
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The wine can be what makes it work - or what makes it worse.
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I absolutely love this poem. As usual, you manage to say a great deal with few words. First, I love that you wrote an ode to your wife's "ass-ets." But deeper than that I think you explored one of the essential characteritics of marriage. Married couples appreciate those little acts more deeply than we may realise. Sometimes the most benign slights or thougtlessness can seem (feel?) huge, and there is not always a way of knowing what is going to cut the deepest. Most of all we don't make that decision to be together only on our wedding day. We make that decision daily.
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Thank you, Tara!
Quite the insight you have!
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