kids!
grow your own
purple crystals
says a kit in the
local I.G.A. supermarket
I can easily imagine
them going wilder than wild
eating Mum and Dad
and the dog the cats and the canary
marching down the
prim lanes of Ainslie like alien battalions
fit for Dr Who,
amazing the grizzled pensioners at the nursing home
(many of whom soon
forget what they saw), purple people eaters!, others cry,
recalling a ’50s fave
the grim Singularity has
occurred, robots are taking over, public servants are undergoing
intimate examinations by swarthy bug-eyed terrorists aboard hovering saucers,
but of course this is all in my over-heated imagination which no doubt is in
need of budget repair
I can’t imagine
where such paranoia comes from …
LOL! Have you been playing with KMnO4, again?
ReplyDeleteDon't even know what it is, Efi! :)
ReplyDeletepotassium permanganate or Condy's crystals - they turn stuff purple (we played with this stuff in chemistry). I thought maybe the IGA crystals was the same chemical or something similar?
ReplyDeleteactually have heard of Condy's crystals but didn't know the formula. very likely was tat, but I didn't have a good look at the packet.
Delete*that, not tat!
Deleteyes my mum drew the line when, encouraged by my physicist uncle, I started growing urine crytsals in my bedroom
ReplyDeleteha... kidney stones without the kidney!
DeleteI think that captures post-election feeling pretty well!
ReplyDeletesadly yes!
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