How do lemons and the paper a poem is written on resemble each other?
The short direct answer is shape.
Lemons beg to rest in a shape resembling a bowl. Concave. The love of a lip.
Poems love to recline. Yes, think bed. Poems are smitten by rest.
The merchant recalled an article on the spy game Mincemeat The author had conjoined espionage and poetry in a clever way: "The deceptions of intelligence are not conventional narratives... They are poems, capable of multiple interpretations." (Gladwell)
So it was up to him to send the foreman some poems perhaps bury them in a basket of lemons and apples So he contacted the purveyor of fruits they had met on the way to the factory, by way of the councilman
Hypotheticals (continued)
ReplyDeleteThe merchant recalled an article on the spy game Mincemeat
The author had conjoined espionage and poetry in a clever way:
"The deceptions of intelligence are not conventional narratives...
They are poems, capable of multiple interpretations." (Gladwell)
So it was up to him to send the foreman some poems
perhaps bury them in a basket of lemons and apples
So he contacted the purveyor of fruits they had met
on the way to the factory, by way of the councilman