Small Talk with Mr. Oyster

How are you Mr. Oyster?
– Enjoying my days hiding in this shell!

Why do you live in salt?
– Salt is my lovely habitat!

Do you often meet beloved seaweed?
– Well I swim through her hair can you believe!

Is quahog your dearest friend?
– Oh yes, we both get eaten by these monstrous humans!

~Navaparna

Day 2 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2023.

Prompt 2 source: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-10/
And now for today’s (optional) prompt! The Romanian-born poet Paul Celan once wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers. Here are a couple of examples:

                What is forgetting?

                                An unripe apple stabbed by a spear.

                What is a tear?

                                A scale awaiting a weight.

Now for each question, write a one-line answer. Try to make the answer an image, and don’t worry about strict logic. These are surrealist answers, after all!

After you’ve written out your series of questions and answers, place all the answers, without the questions, on a new page. See if you can make a poem of just the answers. You may find that what you have is very beautifully mysterious, and somehow has its own logic.

Quite a challenging prompt for today. I literally didn’t wanna skip but my head is empty! I present a short conversation with Mr. Oyster and his sea life! I promise to come up with better concept and expressions :))

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