Day 24

 Reviews


1.


Reviewing the reviewer


I. The book lover


The character in the novel, described as 2 dimensional, overrode his Freudian conditioning – this is an Edwardian age Austrian novel- and pulling at the corner of the page, dragged it back like a bedsheet and crawled out naked, stood in the room before the reviewer and started to argue.


The reviewer, a millennial 21st century man, revisiting an old classic, was not prepared for the immediacy of this guy  -stood right here, not budging. 


I am not flat and a puppet of the author, I think you’ll find I’m very much flesh and blood, he said, 

and with that punched the critic smack in the face


The reviewer of books sighed – it was the third time this week and if it wasn’t punches, it was tears.


His sleeve still bore tear marks from where he’d tried to comfort the sparky but ultimately cliched gen x protagonist of a hot new author after he’d mentioned the predictability of the set up.


To be honest, he felt like a protest or God himself, 

listening to the moaning of creation


ii. the moviegoer 


The film critic was apparitioned by the full flow ghost of the multimetered gigantic actor careering through the screen and enveloping the writer in light. 


I apologise, apologise,

he sobbed, addressing the thing


Your acting was nothing less than 

Oscar worthy, incandescent,Oscar worthy

Go back to the silver


2.


bluebells 


are the best blue bells they can be

I have no idea how the bluebells could actually out blue bell themselves


Except, the rose debates the bluebells' unrosiness

And so the bluebells unbluerose


Do not

ring the changes 

Be just blue be blue

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