Friday, January 28, 2011

Headline: New program teaches how to cook on a budget - #fridayflash



Well-meaning
volunteers
start a course
to teach me
how to cook
on the cheap.
Their pictures
in the Post
are grainy:
‘Church ladies
help the poor
in tough times.’
Corporate
appetite
devours
my country,
licks its lips,
lusts for more.
I know how to cook a goddamned chicken.
I just want my job back.

19 comments:

  1. Damn straight Cathy!
    The jobless already know how to make a chicken stretch. Better to focus on curbing the "Corporate apetite" so there are a few more yardbirds to go around.

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  2. If I told you everything I love about this my comment would be longer than your post.

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  3. Sadly many jobs are not coming back. Changes in the economy make it harder and harder to fight unemployment.

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  4. The final couplet is a powerful statement in conjunction with corporate greed.
    Adam B @revhappiness

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  5. That was really well done, Cathy. Perhaps you are a poet in the making. And the message couldn't be any clearer.

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  6. That was awesome. You can really feel the frustration in those last lines. Really excellent job on this one, Cathy.

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  7. CATHY! This kicks the A-word girl!

    More. Poetry. Please.

    Seriously, you should submit this somewhere. Each stanza builds up to that ending which is no holds barred and just right. The formality of the first parts, followed by the unleashing of emotional language. The thematic hunger laced throughout. Um um good.

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  8. Excellent poem. Quite timely, and tells a great story in just four stanzas. Well done!

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  9. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Says it all and in such simple words.

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  10. Go girl. Thank you thank you thank you.

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  11. Pow. Sing it, sister. Lou's right, you should submit this.

    Love. Every. Word.

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  12. ... and THAT is how poetry is done. A lick of salt, a straight shot of truth and a bitter lime to seal the deal.

    Loved this.

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  13. Excellent verse, spoken from the heart and not holding anything back.

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  14. I know that look of desperation.

    I've had that look of desperation.

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  15. Add in what TIM said, plus the recipe of TONY and stir the pot with your creative juices CATHY, and you serve up a sign of the times to gulp at.

    I did.
    You're a voice.
    ~ Absolutely*Kate

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  16. This is amazing; creative, heartfelt, angry and a call to arms. There is nothing more patronising than TV cooking shows explaining how to eat cheap in times of hardship.

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