Green Eggs, Hold the Ham - Poetic Reading
Channel: Petite Porch Performances
Date: 2023-02-06

Green Eggs, Hold the Ham

You took me for a Jewish fool. And though I often play one on YouTube, did you really think I would not notice in the six-pack of freshly laid eggs, from your very own paradisal garden of free-ranging and roaming chicks and hens, that one of the eggs was not like the others? That from among the hues of tawny fawn taupe, ballet shoe satin pink and Geraldine’s seafoam green, a snooty eggshell off-white painted one would be dismissed, not stand out – a fake! Are you that wooden or simply hard-boiled like all the rest?

Sight alone revealed this unfair mixing and matching. I didn’t even need to weigh the pine tree’s hidden heart rings in my hands to know you had pulled a lickety-split, slick-back bait and switch. Now we’re silly playing with a play thing toy egg that a cupid kitten bats and battles round the scenery, to an AI’s aping surround sound of a simulated stereo symphony. Oh Seán, Juan or John or whatever, however you carry on. Tarry on. Feline jealousy is so unbecoming. Let it not be our undoing.

We’re so pleased. Free to be you and me. Play your last card. Go ahead, shoot the moon. And while you are at it, shoot me again times two. Men and women. Chicken and green eggs. Tabby cats in silk stocking top hats. Which came first? We’ll never show that.

Still, the Goddess divined, arched her back and expansively divided. Now the Earth’s secret recipe’s revealed. Signed, sealed and delivered! So why shan’t I divulge, how I spied in my hearth’s swirling tongues of fire, a strangely gothic Goldie-locked Messiah. And, my oh my desire! Goddess goodness gracious me, how many honey-suckled lemony honey cakes can we bake, ice and decorate today, with all the bedazzled and bejeweled eggs so generously laid for our beloved lovely heart’s knave.

―Nancy Sendler, February 5, 2023 

"Brilliant! Your work is really quite different, a new kind of genre which everyone ought to be really excited about.” Professor David A Kolb, Bates College philosophy dept. chair (retired) and hypertext fiction pioneer compared my work to 20th century, classical music composer John Cage’s genius, experimental and influential compositions. “Nancy writes poetically, ironically, in deeply interconnected ways." -  https://dkolb.org/

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Nancy Sendler & the divine feline cupid kitty Hazelton
Poet & New Media Writer, Conscientious Coincidence Collector, Constellation Dancer, Dreamer & Dandelion Lover

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Image: Cabbage Leaf by Edward Weston 1930