Translated…

The Crabs Rammed Around on the Tip of My Tongue

The Red Ants Marched Alongside My Lips and Teeth

The Spicy Became an Excellent Archer

With One Arrow, Through to My Throat

The Spiciness Became an Arsonist

then the Sweet…

Setting My Intestines and Stomach Ablaze

And, What of the Savory Tastes?

Going to the Nighttime Banquets, with Savory, Delicious Delicacies

Having Had Your Tastes, Your Shares of the Assortment of Flavors

And Now, You’d Felt Colder in the Hearts and Burned on the Lips?

the Bitter…

After the Heart’s Been Soaked in a Soured Solutions, the Lips Shall

Become Sweetened

Using Love to Ice Down the Hatred, Would the Love Have that Longer Lasting Flavor Then?

The Karmic Cycle of Having Cigarettes Before the Meals

the spicy!

And Eventually Being Diagnosed with Diabetes as the Results

Turning Those Bitterness into Laughter, the Faces of the Multitude of Flavors Hit You, All at Once; Chewing on Your Tongues, Why Not Chew Down on the Words Instead

Swallowing Down the Ships’ Worth of Your Own Vocal Abilities

In This Age of Having Salt Being Similar to Telling the Lies

The Words, Good AND Bad are

and lastly but still NOT least, the SALTY!!!

The Condiments to the Many Conversations People Shared

Before the Flavors Sank in, the Multitude of Expressions of Feelings Circled Around Us

The Stench from the Fish and the Lambs Came Towards Us

The Buddhist Disciples are Putting on the Banquets Here

The Gumbo of Blessings with the Tragedies, the Banquet for the Growing and the Declining

Some of the Foods were Delicious, But Hard for Us to Swallow Down

Sometimes, as All the Best Ingredients Get Cooked Together, into a

Bad Pot of Porridge: the Hatreds

Burned and Not Cooked Thoroughly Enough, the Words Spoken in Sleep

Turned Sour, and Bears that Stench. The Swiftness Bounced from Teeth to Teeth; and Memories Became a Total Indigestion

And so, this, is what the world looks like right now, everything IS mixed up, cooked, inside this big old caldron, into something that’s inedible, but, people are still, wanting more and more of this “food” that’s nasty, that’s currently served up to us on that silver platter by the press………