“rises like heartburn, the ghost-lump feeling”
Then Too There Is This - J. Allyn Rosser | GT’s Enlightened Kombucha Cayennade
The Poem
Then Too There Is This - J. Allyn Rosser
joy in the day's being done, however
clumsily, and in the ticked-off lists,
the packages nestling together,
no one home waiting for dinner, for
you, no one impatient for your touch
or kind words to salve what nightly
rises like heartburn, the ghost-lump feeling
that one is really as alone as one had feared.
One isn't, not really. Not really. Joy
to see over the strip mall darkening
right on schedule a neon-proof pink
sunset flaring like the roof of a cat's mouth,
cleanly ribbed, the clouds laddering up
and lit as if by a match struck somewhere
in the throat much deeper down.
The Beverage
GT’s Enlightened Kombucha Cayennade
This shit is wild. I have taken like three sips of it since I got home from Trader Joe’s, and it is VERY SPICY. My lips are kind of burning right now, actually. This isn’t even a recommendation, so much as needing to document just how strange this beverage is. I truly do not understand it. It’s fermented, sour, and spicy. And fruity? Who even knows. It’s weird as hell. But you know me. I have never shied away from trying a weird beverage. It will take me days to drink this bottle because it confuses my mouth. Also, I purchased it in a new Trader Joe’s on a Sunday night. An urban TJ’s is dangerous any time on a Sunday night, but I cannot unrecommend enough going to a brand new one on a Sunday night. Do not do it.