14 July 2013

Ama Ata Aidoo [The GirdBlog]

from Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, 1977:

Sissie had never seen plums before she came to Germany. No, she had never seen real, living, plums. Stewed prunes, yes. Dried, stewed, sugared-up canned plums.

Praise the Lord for all dead things.

First course:

Cream of asparagus soup

Thirty months in an aluminum

Tin.

Second course:

Chicken moriturus under

Pre-mixed curry from

Shepherds Bush:

And since we are learning to take

Desserts — true mark of a leisured class —

Canned prunes

Canned pears

Canned apples

Apricots

Cherries.

Brother,

The internal logic is super-cool:

The only way to end up a cultural

Vulture

Is to feed on carrion all the way