What’s for dinner?
by Elouise
Edible. Such a lovely word. Especially for hungry people, and especially if it’s offered as a banquet served on silver platters, with drum rolls and fine patriotic music in the background.
So what’s for dinner? Why are you so secretive about what’s on the menu? You say it’s going to be Beautiful, even Great! Much better for my health than the food I’ve been eating all these years.
Am I to believe you and your not-so-carefully scripted words, or my own well-honed gut instincts?
Do you have a complete list of ingredients? A nutritional profile for the long-term edibility of this fine feast you’re serving up? My gut won’t tolerate just anything, you know.
Poison in any form is inedible. Especially when cooked up in a private club-like kitchen with chefs and assistants who look strangely like each other, smile a lot, and keep saying what a Beautiful Thing this feast is going to be. Just what I need to Make My Health Great Again!
Really? Why is my stomach already churning? And what’s that stench in the air? Don’t you smell it? I haven’t even taken the first bite, and I’m already looking for the closest bathroom!
Are you going to force-feed me? Did your parents force-feed you? Do you force-feed your children? Your grandchildren? Your nephews and your nieces? Why aren’t there any exit signs in this room?
Is it really too much to hold out for edible food? As I see it, a dry crust of bread shared with peace of mind would be better than this banquet of trouble.
With thanks to Proverbs 17:1 (Good News Translation)
Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind
than have a banquet in a house full of trouble.
© Elouise Renich Fraser, 18 July 2017
Image found at pinterest.com
Response to WordPress Daily Prompt: Edible
run! you might be for dinner, cover ur mind and run!
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Yikes! 😊
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lol
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Luckily I don’t have a stomach that needs to be satisfied 😀 🐻
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Lucky indeed! Especially when what some call TrumpCare is on the menu…. 🙂
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It’s my belief that Education, Medical Attention, Public Transport, Gas & Electricity provision is bast served by being Government owed and run. The government is after all/supposedly THE PEOPLE!
Since our gas & electricity supplies have been sold off by successive liberal (read conservative) governments, the prices have sored and the service has drowned. And all the profits? Not ploughed back like government owned utilities, but gone offshore and no tax paid.
Time for a real socialist revolution. Perhaps I should lead it 😈
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You would be a worthy opponent! If I had a vote in Australia, I’d cast it your way for sure. We The People aren’t being well served. 😦
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Would you believe that Doctor Sandroussi, who like me is a paid up member of the Australian Labor Party, and we share the same beliefs, He told me whilst we were discussing politics, when I was recovering in hospital; that he wasn’t happy with the leadership of the Party and the way it is heading, and that if I decided to take/make a run for the leadership he would be more than willing to run and manage the campaign for me. Believe me he was serious! I pointed out that at 80 I might be a bit long in the tooth and he said ‘bugger’ the age, it doesn’t make any difference.
I should have told him that “I haven’t got the stomach for the fight now, you just whipped it out” 😀 😈
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😄 Does ‘bugger’ the stomach work better? 😊
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What a unique post E, I was thinking at first the D took you out to a snazzy restaurant…..but it doesn’t sound like a place I wish to partake in breaking bread at…. ❤ feed the soul with goodness, always ❤
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Yes, well the healthcare disaster was on my mind from the moment I pondered ‘inedible.’ I couldn’t quite leave it alone. We can do better that this, I believe, if we can figure out how to work together. Maybe now we have a chance to do just that? We shall see. In the meantime, I prefer my own choice of food for soul and body! 🙂
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good hearty spiritual food ❤ and peace and good things too ❤
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