Wood-burning

January 30, 2014 by Charron's Chatter 7 Comments

 
 

She had a parting of the ways

with her houseplants

—a falling out.

it bore no rePeating …

& she kicKed them to the curb

—succulents, first.

Everyone secretly hates succulents,

and in that regard, she was no different from anyone else…

Creepy shop o’ horrors plant,

and not even attractive

the plant for the:

I am too lame to have a houseplant, plant-owner

Released to the wild, these plants were free!

Both deprived and granted rooTs,

it was their inability to ambulate that spelled disaster

since cities limit Trees.

 ©Karen Robiscoe

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7 Responses to “Wood-burning”

  1. Tina J.S January 30, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    Well, you are a good writer 🙂 What more can I say 🙂

  2. RoSy January 31, 2014 at 3:30 am

    Houseplants usually part ways from me. They say I have a brown thumb. What does that mean?

    • Charron's Chatter January 31, 2014 at 1:46 pm

      this means you are intensely good with plants–so much so–you’re just a skosh Mama Earth…?

      They need new glasses?

      A nice tan?

      🙂 These are my guesses, and i will admit to being rotten with cymbidiums…haha…or cruddy…orcrud…?

      LOL!! Just woke up…:D

  3. MisBehaved Woman January 31, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    Venus flytrap. Only houseplant worth keeping around…Not creepy if you feed them regularly – and avoid hyping them up with too many gummy worms 😉

    • Charron's Chatter January 31, 2014 at 10:31 pm

      honestly? they sound fascinating–and the only good succulent is exactly such a succulent. That’s an honest, carnivorous thang…;)

      i did like that movie, though…Lil Shop o Horrors…I know it was a play, but I liked the movie better…

      do you have a Venus flytrap? We have this “corpse” flower up at UCSB–pretty rare–and it only blooms like 1 every 7 years, and well, it did last summer, and i truly meant to go and check out its one of a kind aroma..,but I got side-tracked. hehe–noxious smells are pretty easy to forgo..giganter flower or otherwise…

    • MisBehaved Woman February 2, 2014 at 4:25 pm

      I love both versions of the movie and would LOVE to see it on stage if I ever should be so lucky.

      I had a flytrap…his name was Morris. He nibbled on bits of tuna or ground meat and I sometimes tickled him with a toothpick just for grins. Then one day…I set Morris on the windowsill to get some rays…the curtain dropped in front of him…I forgot him…I dehydrated…erm. murdered..? my poor little succy plant.

      I got a whiff of the deathbloom when I lived in Fullerton years ago. Alls I can say is that some of the sewage plant s my dad worked on had a more pleasant fragrance! Definitely not a recommended houseplant – unless you’re taking a housewarming gift to someone you dislike! 😉

    • Charron's Chatter February 2, 2014 at 5:53 pm

      but a highly appropriate funeral bloom…GTK, MisBehaved, and I am glad I ‘missed out”…;)