Ludicrous Luxury
Poem: Ludicrous Luxury
It’s more than alright
It’s an avocado flat…white?
A smashed and bashed avocado
with a salted cappuccino?
Salted dough!
Salted dough!
Salted dough!
Don’t you know?
Sour caramel as well with an avocado slice
Don’t think twice about the price
With the power of the mind,
soon you will find that the spoon you bend will help force this new trend!
Fling in a cushion
Be close to the right postcode, puddle and poodle
You’ve got yourself a village from a designer’s five minute squiggle and doodle
Close enough but far from the river
Be seated outside during all year round and feel those bleached teeth chatter and you start to shiver!
Don’t worry about all that sneezing
Remember who’s pockets you’ll be lining
and who you will be pleasing!
“Luxuriously apart from your senses apartments”… to rent
Of course one has to believe it’s all money well spent
No time to think broadly or even to pause
All for Mr Oligarcho with his ‘sold it to you lifestyle’ greedy good cause.
Review: Ludicrous Luxury
A great opener with a confident statement of being ‘more than alright’
Of course it is. How could it not be? It’s not just any old ‘flat white’ is it? , it’s an avocado flat white. That’s healthy stuff right? Now If it’s made with oat or soya milk…or both that’s even better ? I jest! Sorry, I can’t help but. I’m allowing myself to be absorbed into the absurdity of the words used to describe the humble and handsome beverage of what was, once upon a time, a simple coffee. The avocado has my attention along with a weird sounding cappuccino. Salted? Yuck right? but I read on. Where is this going here? I’m intrigued.
‘Market trader style’ with the repetition of words ‘salted dough’ The message just has to go in! The idea needs to be sold. And the poet isn’t leaving ‘caramel’ or ‘sour’ out of it either. It’s impossible to do that with ‘healthy’ food trends now-a-days. They still feature in the poem but in an equally weird way as the cappuccino.
I laugh at the thought of using spoon bending and mind bending techniques to force this new way of fashionable living? (like the famous late 20th century entertainer/magician, Uri Geller. Not many television channels available in those days, you see. He did well. Good on him with his spoon bending ways) Surely it’s old fashioned, now we are here in the 21st century?
Something is not right here. It’s not a gentle and tickling under the chin, persuasive coersion.
If ‘Arirtificial Intellience’ hasn’t already jumped off a digital cliff (I’ve read the A.I poem, I know of how it ends) then the horror of this ‘rehashed and retro’ scenario would finish it off! for good…Good!
The latest coffee shop trend, is this?
An avocado ‘flat white’ sounds new.
Must give it a try, right?
Let me guess, if this is the latest ‘trend’ and it’s spoken about on social media enough times and people are ‘encouraged’ to drink and share photos of it then… I’ll… stop right there before I get carried away with this faux cultural behaviour.
The once strange but humble avocado has been ‘smashed’ enough times over the years, surely it’s ‘flat’ enough to acquire the trendy, and an even more healthy coffee status? (along with the turmeric latte’s and the like)
I’m loving the ‘flinging in’ of a cushion to get a village.
I have seen this, yes. I have tried it, yes. I am not knocking it, (but I will!) and I do laugh out loud again.. But being still during the colder months does work better for the enjoyment of life by being somewhere that makes sense – that place called INDOORS
I laugh out loud yet again at the ‘river’ being mentioned. Am I sold on the idea of this lifestyle because I’m close enough to the river? OF COURSE NOT!
The poet is not taking any of this seriously and is holding up a mirror to the ridiculousness of ‘so called’ fashions.
The rhyming of the words work effectively to create a flowing movement throughout the poem.
An eye opening and wise poem to look at the facts and not at ideas that have been presented and sold but do not serve you at all!
An entertaining and humorous little read.