16/11/2024

Playing With Food

I eat the doughnut.
I eat the doe nut.
I eat the do naught.
I eat the dew not.
I dew not eat the dough naught.
I do not eat the doughnut.

Eye-eat the doughnut.
Eye-heat the dow nut.
Elite the dow nought.
Isle eat the down ought.
Aisle leat the do nut.
I'll eat the doughnut.

I heath the doughnut.
I heed the doe not.
I head the doe knot.
I haute the do not.
I note the dune nut.
I do not have the doughnut.

A passage for possible inclusion in a future work to be entitled 'The Crack that Ran All the Way to the Sea'.

I looked into the sky and saw that, in its vastness and the severity of its moods, it could mirror a human soul. I stood there looking, but ...