We had Chinese
style fried shrimp that is the highlight of the day you know I am so worried we
are going to run out of ideas how to spend a Sunday every weekend we fail this
morning we already went to the market and we already went shopping and I
already bought useless things toilet paper and sanitary towels and black pepper
and we already got bored and we lie on the bed half dead half nervous you know
I am bored of this life it’s been so long we still love each other and actually
we’ve only been together for two months people say three months is the real
test that’s how long the stupid passion lasts we reached the second month we
still have another one to go I hope we still love each other oh I don’t know
what love is so let’s cook something again cook something for dinner although
we just had lunch people don’t do dinner right after lunch on Sundays
especially after the fried shrimps at eleven thirty but I need to do something
in the kitchen rather than lie on the bed so I cook some chicken and I put more
ginger and garlic I think spices are good for England and good for our mood
meanwhile I pray for the night to come soon and for tomorrow to come soon and
as long as we can manage to survive until monday everything will be fine and on
monday morning we will have no time to think about the purity of love and the
blindness of love and the sorrow of love and the boredom of love and the fear
of love we will survive and god save us god save the cowards god save the ones
who are in doubt
Guo, Xiaolu. “Sunday prayer of an
individualist.” 13 Jun. 2005. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. <http://www.guoxiaolu.com/wr_poem_sunday_prayer.htm>
- upper sec
- crisis of self,
ennui
- prose poetry
- compare with other poems with
similar themes of consumerism, such as Carol Ann Duffy’s “A Healthy Meal”
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