Thai in Los Angeles - a stream of consciousness poem for Freewrite # 176 - curry
Greetings fellow Steemians! Here is my 41st 5 minute freewrite. The prompt is: "curry".
(Full disclosure: This piece took me significantly longer than 5 minutes to write)
Freewriting is a daily practice for most poets and fiction writers, designed to loosen up and get things flowing, like stretching before exercise. Visual artists, especially those who draw or paint from life (figures, landscapes, still lives, etc) do something similar in "gesture drawings". After reading several of @poetrybyjeremy's freewrite posts, I got excited to try these again. Many thanks to @mariannewest for hosting this daily freewrite!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-176-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-curry
https://pixabay.com/en/thai-curry-green-curry-curry-chili-1736806/
Thai in Los Angeles
If it weren't for our friends
Who aren't white
And know where the good stuff is
We would never come to a place like this
Never have the chance
To hear them ask
"Hot, medium, or mild"
And bring pain regardless
Exquisite
Transcendent
Snot bubbling from our nostrils
Sweat beading on our foreheads
Tears streaming down our faces
As we laugh
And talk
Like this is normal for us
When in fact
It's heaven.
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Looks so good! Love freewriting, too!
Thanks! Me too :)
Very nice. I love curry and everytime I sit at my Thai Chicken Curry and cry. Thanks.
Me too. An exquisite mix of pleasure and pain that hot curry can be :)
Looks pretty delicious!
but, This dish is spicy?
I'm not sure... I got the image from Pixabay. The poem is mine, not the photo ;D
ups...thaifood is the best ...happy Songkran from Koh Chang![20180404_123215.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb2NyDsPrverco8HxZLsGcYUnDJDr35FnMcZ184PPgnEH/20180404_123215.jpg)
:D thank you! Those places in LA are the closest I've ever been to the real thing... amazing tho! The friends who took us there were Thai, and we would be the only non-Thai people in the place, relatively well-kept secrets I guess ;D
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Yummy it's delicious.
Thai food make me happy and eat more 😍
:D me too.
This all because of curry???
ah... if you could have tasted that curry!
And the green papaya salad. And the Tom Yum...
(The prompt for this freewrite was curry, tho, so I owe the inspiration to @mariannewest and @freewritehouse) ;)
wow.. looks delicious
Right?
How many times does this happen and how many heavens we can't see?
You wrote it like a paint, it has the minimalism and that feeling of capturing the moment of an haiku.
Thank you @f3nix! Not a very dramatic poem, but one where I was definitely trying for a snapshot of a moment in time. One of many, as you say :)
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