Hurtz E-Book

Jasmine Gardosi

• Herausgeber: Verve Poetry Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 23

Beschreibung

Gardosi's first foray into print. It is also a labour of love. A single poem, performable, readable on the subject of sound, colour and individual pain (physical but also and most notably emotional).Jasmine's incredible piece helps launch our new Verve Poetry Pamphlet series – 'Pamphlet of Words' – in which Spoken Word Poets of note explore the variety of ways performance pieces can be aimed resolutely at the page and yet still fly in performance.

Leseprobe

PUBLISHED BY VERVE POETRY PRESS

Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

www.vervepoetrypress.com

[email protected]

All rights reserved

© 2019 Jasmine Gardosi

The right of Jasmine Gardosi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

FIRST PUBLISHED MAY 2019

Printed in Birmingham by Positive Print

ISBN: 978-1-912565-22-1

ePub ISBN: 978-1-912565-81-8

Recent studies have shown that cutting your thumb chopping kale hurts more than when chopping bacon, because you are about to eat kale and not bacon.

Having your foot run over by your Ford Focus is equivalent to pain acquired when a 26-year-old blonde rejects you for your wingman.

And contrary to the popular saying, the pain of an ant is not equal to that of a giant. An ant losing a leg would equate to a friendly punch on a human shoulder. Two legs, if the punch is passive aggressive.

Once the International Hurtz Scale is programmed into glasses and contact lenses, you’ll be able to see your pain. Not just feel it.

red

10 hrtz

#ff0000

orange

20 hrtz

#ffa500

yellow

30 hrtz

#ffff00

green

40 hrtz

#008000

turquoise

50 hrtz

#40e0d0

blue

60 hrtz

#0000ff

candy pink

hang on

#e4717a

raspberry glace

are you sure

#915f6d

indigo

okay

#4b0082

violet

100 hrtz

#7f00ff

purple

110 hrtz

#800080

grey

120 hrtz

#808080

black

130 hrtz

#000000

brown

140 hrtz

#964b00

orange

but we

#ffa500

red

we've already had

#ff0000

white

170 hrtz

#ffffff

flamingo

oh, come on

#fc8eac

pistachio

Clive

#93c572

shimmering blush

did you do this?

#d98695

outrageous orange

goddamnit, Clive

#ff6e4a 120 hrtz

For reference 1.0

Headache is equal to

bust lip

Foot cramp is equal to

grazed knee

Standing on piece of Lego

is two times walking into window

[though walking into window is worth 0.25

more when window is in public]

Dropping phone in toilet

is equivalent to slamming hand

in car door

Self-blame accumulated by burning tongue on

noodle soup so you can’t taste the rest of it

is 3.5 times that of losing biscuit in tea

Sense of loss when friend

takes disproportionately large lick

of your ice cream is only half

of watching Mufasa death scene

Missing bus by ten seconds

is greater than or equal to regret

of sleeping with bra on

Signing off a text to your boss with a kiss