| 15 July |
Phoenix Audience Poem - Aubergine |
I’ve been remiss and not sent up the audience poem from the wonderful night at the Phoenix. They opted to investigate the aubergine, and were pretty pleased with what they came up with - quite rightly, I think. Aubergines what are you like?
Aubergines – an egg’s ugly cousin Purple and sexy you make me smile Saviour of my cheap night in Aubergines, Oversized liquorice jellybeans Lick-able like me The purple shiny skin of a sweaty bald patch Plummy, roundy, purple bumbly Green pokey stalk Aubergines have feelings too A personified bruise An English pear with a suntan Aubergines, broken dreams, silent screams Aubergines are fancier than Under-gines Rakish squishy pulpy thing The big but small fruit of life It’s like a giant tomato but purple and slimy My love is like an Aubergine: big hearted, shiny and delicious barbequed Aubergines you’re fat and thin, you’re purple like a lucid dream In Aubergines would make good weapons of mass destruction, if they weren’t soft Black dummies for big babies Dressed up marrows Aubergines are a culinary challenge A Greek holiday with Germans The colour of our bathroom suite, the colour of my wedding suit Goodbye Aubergines… Aubergines are difficult to shove up your arse.