You’ll
need a fish and some sequins,
a bottle of good wine, sugar,
rock
salt, a bag of mints, and maybe
an
orange or two. This is not
a
comprehensive list. Improvise a bit.
If it
were meant to be simple, anyone
could do
it. Are you still listening to me?
Good.
Now you need to build a boat.
Not a
real boat, an imaginary boat.
Exactly
12 feet and 4 inches long.
It
should smell like pine trees
in your
boat. You must stack coins
edge to
edge. Bind them with candy
floss.
It doesn’t matter what color.
It just
needs to be sticky. You have
too many
questions. Why would I know
when the
flood is coming? Who said
it would
end in a flood? I’m just telling
you to
build a boat in your mind.
No easy
fixes I’m afraid, but you can
eat the
fish. Sequins make everything shine.
You’ll
figure out the rest or you won’t.
© Ellie
White, Originally Published in Peatsmoke
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| Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons |
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