I call myself a word girl, because words touch me
in many different ways, but memories is the biggest one
It is very interesting the tidbits of information
that your mind will hold from yesterday
Songs, poems, quotes, commercials, and catch phrases
can all take you back in time at a moment's notice
I like to listen to the classic rock station in
my car for just that reason, an old favorite
will put a smile on my face, not just for the
familiar lyrics, but for the memories it invokes
I often respond to my cat's pleas for more food
with the Meow mix commerical's theme song,
and he looks at me like I've lost my mind
My nephew also thought I was odd when I started
singing "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"
after a family member handed me some alka seltzer
for an upset stomach
So, I think I will "ride like the wind" and do my errands
for the day because "Life is a journey, not a destination"
Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka
Seemed sturdy as a *Tonka-
Yet he gave kids minty sugar blades of grass
While fizzy lifting drinks made them rise with gas!
Willy Wanka & The Chocolate Factory: Book Author: Roald Dahl.
1971 Film Screenplay: Roald Dahl and David Seltzer (uncredited).
I am like a little seltzer pill.
Effervescent bubbles deep inside.
You are the liquid all around me, all around...
Uncovering the joy that I would hide.
I want to dissolve myself in you.
I want to dissolve.
So, wrap yourself around me as my body fades away.
I want to dissolve.
I am like the ice in wintertime.
Cold and hard and oh, so slippery.
You are the sun beaming down. beaming down.
Evaporating all of what is me.
I want to dissolve myself in you.
I want to dissolve.
So, wrap yourself around me as my body fades away.
I want to dissolve.
It must be so much more than love.
This desperate need to bare myself to you.
You are the Pacific all around my tiny shell.
Enfolding me with in your balmy blue.
And your saline eats away at my defenses.
Eroding all my carefully made fences.
Watch me dissolve...
In the end I want to be a part of you.
Swimming, drifting all around your soul.
I want to soak up all I can of you
Until my empty spirit becomes full.
I want to dissolve myself in you.
I want to dissolve.
So, wrap yourself around me as my body fades away.
I want to dissolve.
When tummies rumble, it’s a sign
that plumbing pipes are not aligned
Think back on what you chewed today
Take Alka-Seltzer ~ Don’t delay
~ Iambic Tetrameter ~
NOISE ANNOYS
Externally it might emerge as a belch
Especially as the seltzer may just fizz
But inside, one may just hear the stomach squelch
Maybe a hiccup, well you know how it is
A grunt is quite the opposite, so they say
But no-one should cackle in a TV quiz
A silly giggle might just escape one day
Yet a howl might just be judged a bit too loud
But a laugh, not a bellow, that is Okay
Such sounds may amuse an audience or crowd
In a studio setting, rules can apply
But deafening silence is rarely allowed
Bodily functions can often go awry
And can surprise anyone, yet few know why
Give it up. All of that. It is about Time. All of that.
I wish I could be another line, more than that!
A wedding, a red saree and a bracelet moment
A garnishing with flower petals and scientific hiccups
To see clouds, after or before Pepto-Bismol
To touch flowers after Alka seltzer
To seek supplication after understanding a motif
A smile, a long lost smile.
And a croon, touching for a synonym hand for a lull-a-bye!
And a tranquility, submerged in emptiness!
January 20, 2024
I used to have Alka-Seltzer stomachs
spitting Excedrin headaches
Had a lot to like in a Marlboro
even ate Aunt Jemima pancakes
I admit -- I thought Coke was xxxtt
was a member of the Pepsi Generation
Used to expect more from Standard
~ Did I ever get it?
The esoteric couple had a night on the town.
And, wow, they were so totally wasted.
Neither aspirin nor Alka-Seltzer, will ever
Repair the health, that both lambasted.
Nor would any marijuana do the trick!
Those fools even tried potent Thai-Sticks?
Live long and prosper,
P.Romios
8/6/2022
In truth, a glass is never empty
except in space, low pressure bell.
Though it appears half full of water,
the top half's occupied as well.
In fact, the moment you add water,
the glass begins to overflow.
The air goes rushing out the top half,
displaced by fluid from below.
Air and water, life's two great pleasures;
it's hard to choose between the two.
When under pressure, forced together,
refreshing seltzer comes in view!
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H/T to Milt's Rebuttal
A Coca-Cola bottle shape, sweet bubbly peaches, and cream
A moment, a time, could this be a Love Supreme?
My throat's parched and my tongue's lonely. I can't wait to pop that top, I'm serious so stop with the jeers
That effervescent fizz got my taste buds jumping. Oh how I love how they intrigue my ears
Anticipating and thinking of that moment of truth that wasn't even meant to last
Seizing the moment is paramount. So I'm drinking slowly, then fast and faster, before the fizz passes
Aaaaaahhhh! Good, very good but now it's gone just as quick as it came
Fleeting! So quickly back to reality. It's funny but I don't recall her name
Soon, it got up to Dr. Spencer
Burning incense on coppery censer
In pursuit of a fitting answer
To the craziest hard hitting cancer:
A line he’d toed for an ulcer
And it result gave him for Gastric Seltzer…
Krishna clouds their way making for a breast,
Not for once letting be the crest,
Incense one, Incense two, up to eleven
In lieu of healing verses to The Heaven.
For a doctor openly radical
It shouldn’t often be the medical
Nor often needful the rightly surgical,
For cancer that could shame the methodical.
Alone or just feeling lonely
I'm somehow Isolated in a crowded office
I feel a hole deep down somewhere
Essential workers never got a break
Unappreciated, we were told to keep going
Hard seltzer and vodka shots made it worse
Ill have time to make it right
I won't hide or drown myself in a binge
There's always time and it's not a race
For someone who truly wants it
I tell myself
To stop and buy him a cupcake
And his favorite coffee
I guess I'll get one for myself
Since I'm already here
Without protest
we watch freedom
dissolve away
like an Alka Seltzer tablet.
feeling pangs of lust
in the pit of my stomach
took seltzer water
could be mistaken for love
or having eaten oysters
SECOND PLACE WINNER
written May 28, 2021
for "Tanka" Poetry Contest
sponsored by M.L. Kiser
Show me a man, not engulfed in lust before love
Nor in the beginning craved her enchanting groove
Then I will show you a liar
As the burning wools, enliven the pride of a cooking stove
So inevitably depends on lust, your holy love
When your heart melt by her gracious sight
From his mantle a sweet seltzer you sip tonight
And both sirens screams with passion
In the end love is praised and lust, blamed
As with negativity, lust is framed
Oh! Dear lust, I shan't merry without you, nor ever love
Even a platonic desire can't undermine your fire
But if this puzzle be hard to solve
Remove lust and watch love dissolve.
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