Everyone makes mistakes in romance, but it's their own fault. Though some places, like high schools and the food service industry, are notorious for mixing people who don't belong together up, producing bad relationships, the environment is not to blame. Those people made their own choices.
The dish and the spoon are both a familiar cultural reference and an arrow pointing at the absurd perversity of the partners we choose for ourselves.
I want to make sweet love to this poem down by the fire. On the one hand, that would be as absurd and perverse a choice as one could possibly (or even impossibly) make, but on the other hand, it would be a perfect symbolic response to a perfect fucking poem.
I like your reading of this and it has well supported reasoning. But what was actually behind this was a stupid argument my flatmate started. He was creating a problem out of nothing and it was childish, hence the nursery rhyme line "the dish ran away with the spoon." I actually really like this poem and I like both ways of interpreting it.
Everyone makes mistakes in romance, but it's their own fault. Though some places, like high schools and the food service industry, are notorious for mixing people who don't belong together up, producing bad relationships, the environment is not to blame. Those people made their own choices.
ReplyDeleteThe dish and the spoon are both a familiar cultural reference and an arrow pointing at the absurd perversity of the partners we choose for ourselves.
I want to make sweet love to this poem down by the fire. On the one hand, that would be as absurd and perverse a choice as one could possibly (or even impossibly) make, but on the other hand, it would be a perfect symbolic response to a perfect fucking poem.
I like your reading of this and it has well supported reasoning. But what was actually behind this was a stupid argument my flatmate started. He was creating a problem out of nothing and it was childish, hence the nursery rhyme line "the dish ran away with the spoon."
ReplyDeleteI actually really like this poem and I like both ways of interpreting it.