The Hidden Poet

For those of you who don’t live in the UK, it has been quite sunny and nice these last few days. Spring, has evidently, sprung. So with that fresh smell in the air (you know- that smell in the air that comes with the change of seasons) I felt like making a vat of Minestrone soup at lunchtime today. And while I was making this vat I heard a noise, a faint noise of a person talking. Then just as I was beginning to question it’s source, it was gone. I figured it was coming from my dad’s computer in the next room although it strangely sounded like it was muffled within the walls of this small kitchen. My mum came in and was doing things. Then it came again. Both me and mum froze and were perplexed as to where this noise was coming from. She asked dad if it was coming from his computer and he flatly ruled out any such thing. ‘Where the fuck is that coming from’, I said to myself. My mum said it was my phone but I don’t have any ringtones. But just in case, I took it out of my pocket and placed it on the table top watching it with suspicions on the covert uses of today's everyday technology.

A few minutes later there it was again. Me and mum stopped as I peaked my ear about trying to find the source of this muffled talking. After a short paused I sussed out who was talking. ‘It’s Homer … It’s Homer Simpson...’, I declared. But what was he doing in the kitchen and where the hell was he?? Curiouser and curiouser… By then, me and mum were beguiled and laughing about it.




A few hours later, after I came back from cycling to Holloway and back there was a bottle opener on the living room table. But not just any bottle opener. My sister brought it for me for Christmas one year and I have never used it. This is largely due to the fact I don't buy bottles and it was stashed away somewhere (evidently). It has Homer Simpson on the front. I place a key mimicing the top of a bottle cap so the metal rims would connect. Homer then spoke with immense enthusiasm... ’Mmmmmmm… Beeeerr….. hehehehe… yes! Oh yes! YAH HOOOO!!’.




- J