The Song of Lunch
Whenever I go out for lunch I can't help thinking about the movie (which is based on a poem by Christopher Reid) titled, The Song of Lunch with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.
Chloe and I went to Cafe Linnea to celebrate her first week back this summer. That's cause enough, right?
I had the potpie, and she had scrambled eggs with bacon.
Nerds that we are, she drew various people, and I took photos of stuff. As we do. We also took photos of each other.
Lunch can be a creative time. I think of Frank O'Hara's lunch poems, and all the other poems about lunch.
Every lunch is an opportunity for poetry, I think. Have you ever had lunch in Grand Central Station? Amy Lowell's poem begins:
Thompsonās Lunch RoomāGrand Central Station
Wax-whiteā
Floor, ceiling, walls.
Ivory shadows
Over the pavement
Polished to cream surfaces
By constant sweeping.
The big room is coloured like the petals
Of a great magnolia,
And has a patina
Of flower bloom
Which makes it shine dimly
Under the electric lamps.
Chairs are ranged in rows
Like sepia seeds
Waiting fulfilment.
{continue reading the poem here}
Chloe had dessert, and I had coffee...
And afterwards we bought doughnuts from the shop around the corner. Because it's silly to pass by a delicious doughnut store and not buy some.
I keep thinking it would be fun to do a series titled, lunch with poets, and do short interviews, or something, or have a poet talk about their favourite poems over lunch, and then share them here. As usual, there's no shortage of ideas, just time.
