Dada Poem ♦ Ten of Diamonds ♦ (poem) by Patricia Gomes on AuthorsDen

Dada Poem ♦ Ten of Diamonds ♦
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Dada Poem ♦ Ten of Diamonds ♦ What better place to craft Dada than a Chinese restaurant! A little one with an open kitchen and a red Formica-covered counter. 4 tables & 16 chairs. Placemats that declare you a monkey, a dog, a snake according to the Chinese calendar & the year of your birth. My senses are filled, my plate runneth over! The smells, the sights, the sounds: CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP, TING TING TING TING TING TING SSSSSIZZLE SSSSSIZZLE SSSSSSSS IZZLE! GLORIOUS, glorious echoes make a Joyful Noise! Clipped syllables permeate the air with Ng. Gratingly beautiful like rusty windchimes and I can't help but see the windchimes in my Lo Mien: n o c o a c d r a o l r b n s e o b i p s t a o r s g n o e s u t s all stick-skinny. CHOP CHOP. Mama Waitress, with happy-wrinkle smiles will always have pink plastic barrettes in her iron locks. I depend on her to look like this. Papa Cook will flash fry my chicken wings: WOOOOOSSSSSH! with one eye forced closed by the smoke from the cigarette perpetually clenched between his teeth. And I depend on him to continue doing so. O � this practice of his violates a law, a State Law, as surely as Dada violates poetry. Long life Papa; long life Dada. I'm enchanted, they are enchanting, and my dinner is delicious. � P. Gomes 2003 - from *The Dada Deck of Poems*

Reviewed by Jim Dunlap

Reviewed on February 1, 2004

This is slyly humorous. Since I spend lots of time at Chinese restaurants, it does evoke a lot of things.

Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson

Reviewed on September 5, 2003

Your are so creative and so darn gooooood!

Reviewed by richard poor

Reviewed on June 4, 2003

very good!!

Reviewed by Adam Walsvik (Reader)

Reviewed on May 23, 2003

trelinandi flelindiliun yomyo!

Adam

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)

You always write the most clever and unusual things!

Reviewed by Retta (Reindeer) Mckenzie

Reviewed on May 21, 2003

This was excellent, I am hungry now! Love the form here!

Reindeer

Reviewed by Mike Ill (Reader)

"And I depend on him
to continue doing so" great line in a great poem! Wasn't Dada and art movement in the early 1900's? I think i'm going to go get me some flash fried chicken wings.

Reviewed by William Bonilla

Ok..... P you making me hungry
Kool write
I loved it

William

Reviewed by E T Waldron

Reviewed on May 20, 2003

P. reading you is like being in the best box at an opera, or similar equivalent...you are just so good!

Reviewed by Ted Sheridan (Reader)

The thinner the silver or gold chopsticks the higher status one has achieved.

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

YUM i love chinese

and how i loved this delicious poem! well cooked--i meant, well done *now you've gone and made me hungry LOL*

(((HUGS))) and love,

karla.

the format is outstanding!

Reviewed by Andre Bendavi ben-YEHU

A true expression of a clean heart that bears - Art, Beauty, Knowledge and Class - to enchant the pages of Literature, and to etch on a heart shaped diamond a name to be praised.

I Salute the Author of "Dada Poem * Ten of Diamonds *".

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Josephine Bohen

You my dear are enchanting

Reviewed by Paul Berube

Pat, your one heluva cook. You really made me hungry. Love the structure of this.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)

Love it. Noodled right along, it did.

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

dang...all of a sudden, i have the strangest hankerin' for chinese food! you've made me hungry with this write; my stomach is talkin' to me! HA! good write! (((HUGS))) and love, your (hungry) friend in texas, karen lynn. :) (((YUMMO!!)))

Reviewed by Jeff Alu

Rockin'!

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)

~P,
Lo mien my favorite too, I loved the sounds and the imagery you created a masterful piece Pat!!!
Peggy