Curry
I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
I went to buy some at a storefront takeaway place.
They came in newspaper like fish and chips.
I wanted curry sauce.
They put it right on top of the sentences.
Soon it had soaked the paper.
On the way back, the sentences fell out.
There was only soggy curried newsprint left when I got home.
And they had looked like good ones too.
So I went outside and retraced my steps.
I stopped to search in picturesque locations.
I looked wistfully at signage and graffiti.
I tried to act as though the camera and crew weren't there.
But I knew they were.
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Lately, I've been playing around a lot with using a hypothetical film as a point of departure.
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Oh, I loved this. And I can't even eat fish and chip sentences. FAVE
You have an interesting meta take on life, Stephen. I like it and envy you your personal amusements : )* This made me think of Mark Strand's lines:Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
this one caught my attention right away, and kept it. thanks for your imaginativeness.
thanks for the reads & lovely comments. i liked making this piece.
I'd definitely see that movie. :)
But no wonder, since I think we share the same taste in film.
Your hypothetical film as a point of departure results in something neat and imaginative. *
Neat work. Keep at this.
Really enjoyed this one, Stephen. It reads as if you enjoyed crafting it, as you mention.
Fave.
thanks very much for the reads & comments. pleased you enjoyed the piece. the hypothetical film constraint is kind of generative if making stories that operate at a meta-register is amusing for you. all these people running around doing things in a frame that's inside the frame of one story but outside the frame of another. it's like a cool toy. try playing with it.
You're creativity surprises me every time. This is something so new, so fresh...and I love it! *
thanks, fos. that's much appreciated.
Very cool.