Bitter -- Por Vida

2 x bitter.  Here's beautiful Por Vida defaced for the second time.  With the first assult, the mural was covered with paper which the muralists removed & then they repainted the mural.  I walked by on Sunday morning to find her defiled a second time -- black paint across the faces.  Why are folks so angery/scared about equality.  Anger makes food bitter.  And life.  And for the life of me, no poems on Sunday.

How do poems taste?

Bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and, more recently, savory are the Western options. Does each word have an inherent taste or it is in the aggregate --phrase, sentence. Does a writer develop a particular taste palette? Add smell to taste, you arrive at flavor. Perhaps, it’s opt to speak of the flavor of a poem. Then again, perhaps, this is too personal and best left to an individual’s oral cavity.

By the way, do you think ears taste sound?


I love savory -- as taste, as herb, as word, as sound.