Chocolate + On Social Isolation + Fried Fish (Photo)
December 16th 2020 was National Chocolate Covers Anything Day. Here’s a nonsense poem. Just realised i missed out Yorkie bars which i just mistyped as Yorkie Bard. ChocolateChocolateCovers all thingsMars and the Milky WayAt a Marathon runners speedChocolate PeanutsAnd coconutsThe oppressed Bounty barSiding with the Flake enemySnicker ChocolateDiscriminatesAgainst bad peopleAwarding them spotted plaguesSnicker Don’t FudgeThe ... Chocolate + On Social Isolation + Fried Fish (Photo)
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December 16th 2020 was National Chocolate Covers Anything Day. Here’s a nonsense poem. Just realised i missed out Yorkie bars which i just mistyped as Yorkie Bard.
Chocolate
Chocolate
Covers all things
Mars and the Milky Way
At a Marathon runners speed
Chocolate
Peanuts
And coconuts
The oppressed Bounty bar
Siding with the Flake enemy
Snicker
Chocolate
Discriminates
Against bad people
Awarding them spotted plagues
Snicker
Don’t Fudge
The rippling work
Of the chocolatier
Making the sweetest of all things
Chocolate
Richard Downes
15th December 2020
(From the Days series)
Another based on Time Out’s Manifesto for London which tells us that neighbours will get to know each other better. We notherners and midlanders find it quite extraordinary the amount of rudeness and ignorance that goes on in our capital so this one is aimed at those who ignore you, shoo you away and is spoken for many.
On Social Isolation
Social Isolation is a condensed experience
Of social isolation experienced in this town
By people marked out by careless neighbours as different
We isolated by those thinking we are marked different
Know outside of pandemic how it feels to feel this way
Call on you who are not so marked to remove prejudice
We use our difference to call out discrimination
We call further for a new normal where new normal is
The end of hatred signaled by your hello good mornings
So that your hello good mornings become our new normals
And we experience good mornings as shared together
On the greyest of wet days or in bright sunny weather
For friendly hello good mornings are really simple
Expressions of comradeship and of good neighbourliness
That do not hurt you and when all is said cost you nothing
When given freely and with good intent in the city
Or in parochial places as small as wee Crouch End
In our streets, our avenues, our lanes, roads and gardens
On paths we walk in futures together side by side
As brothers and as sisters, as one under the same sky
Claiming as we will new normal of hello good morning
Richard Downes
10th December 2020
(from the Declaration series)
