Thanks, Max, Andrew, Pat, glump accepters.
Bill
On Wednesday, 6 April 2016, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> cheers Bill I am often sweet myself or often get an answer that does not
> relte to the statement!
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Sour on sweet
>
> Imagine a declaration of pent-up passion
> to your soul mate greeted with smile spread
> and eye drop. 'That's sweet.' To be seen as sweet
> is to be dismissed as a player. A lower order
>
> nice guy. Sweets come into consideration
> only after the main course, the real deal.
> Or as titbits on the side. Lightweights.
> If so consigned, elevation's doomed.
>
> If I sound like a sourpuss, so be it.
> Sourness sharpens, awakens, challenges.
> The suddenness - and shock - of sour,
> subverts saccharine pleasure. Citrus tang
>
> zips from the word go, cleanses tissues,
> attacks your senses honestly, unlike
> glumpy sweets, taste temptresses whose
> siren call gut-wrecks, lumps you up.
>
> Who'd want to be adjectived sweet? There,
> there, you little sucker. Who'd have thunk
> such an innocent reply could rouse such
> a sour diatribe? Well, at least I'm not bitter.
>
> bw
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