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Soup

John D Robinson

Once, I pssed through a friend’s
letterbox because he had disappointed
me in some way
another time I broke into a newly
abandoned apartment with two
filthy street homeless drunks and
cooked them a meal with what
had been left behind; their first
meal in three days; stale bread
toast; baked beans and a few
potatoes
and another time I met the
Californian poet
Matthew H Lares
In London; Covent Garden
and bought a copy of
‘Beauty and the Beast; Poems’
from him
Lares was drunk,
I wasn’t;
one time I discovered for
myself the poetry of
Doug Draime
and from that initial
experience of reading his
work something woke
within me and yet another
mystery opened
and one time I came truly
alive with life
and we named her
Bonita Rose
and another time; a
time ago; I walked alone,
homeless and it was
freezing and snowing
hard and it was getting
dark and all I could
think of was a bowl of
hot tomato soup and it
was this thought that
took me through that
long and terrible night;
an imaginary and a
a beautiful bowl of
hot aromatic
tomato soup.

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