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Jan 2013
COLD SPACE I

Things like fridge monkeys
can be sorted quite quickly
mustard’s the main thing
but make sure it’s
in the right place

centre shelf

Dijon’s good

or maybe American

wholegrain

organic of course.

maybe…

COLD SPACE II

The fridge monkeys are still there:

**** Them!

the mustard is not working and
I must think of alternative
strategies

come on come on come on

A carefully peeled tomato?

There are yoghurts and soya milk
and small chocolate bears but they
too appear utterly useless ineffective
an ineffectiveness
akin to the intensity of distilled
vinegar mistaken for a pre-mixed
bottle of ***** and coke
[it happens]
grabbed drunk eyes spiral gag

I keep the fridge door open;
the light glows then
in time
turns itself off.  
Time delay mechanism.  
Clever.

I close the door and reopen it again;
the light has returned.

I try to trap the fridge monkeys.

This goes on for sometime.

Oh **** I need to get a life.
Ben Brinkburn
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Ben Brinkburn  Lancashire, UK
(Lancashire, UK)   
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