Tip of the Tongue

Tip of the Tongue

Thursday, 5 February 2015

The Edited Editions: Coffee Sonnet 2

The second installment of my (hopefully) year long venture continues. I particularly struggled with the 3rd stanza and also what the volta would try and show. I think it is nicely summed up in the final couplet but I would right?
I still have issues with the final line of the second stanza though I like the imagery I'm trying to invoke, it may get reworked if a better line comes to pass. I also quite like the original end line in the second stanza but the perspective change from unreliable first to omniscient third required me to delete it. I also omitted the nominalisation of the brands for two reasons; first, so that all corporations can be seen in this and secondly, so as not to inadvertently mention them and therefore promote them subliminally.

Enjoy!
2.

Whore yourself to all and everyone else.
The cravings of a middle class custom, 
With faux leather seats and mass produced art
Across the city - but lacking in heart.

Chain corporations are one and the same,
Purveyors; of our materialism
Our addiction to their corporate crest.
We're never more than ten feet from this pest.

But even those with a discerning eye,
Who can taste the origins of Jamaica
Need the hit of the bitter morning start,
Even if from independence they depart.

Though soon again they realise their regret,
And the change in their pockets means much less. 

Original.

Whore yourself to all and everyone else.
Your prices seek a middle class custom,
Your abode with leather and song compels,
All over the city they'll err and um.

Do I enter at the door of low lights?
Watch out of your window, let life go past?
Let your thick warmth slip down my throat, tonight's
Not going to let me sleep, not so fast. 

A chain corporation you are to me,
Nothing special, you are far from the best.
People call you Robert's, but don't you see?
You're all the same a necessary pest.

Coffee, from Finland's own Starbucks like vein.
We will always need you, part of the grain. 

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