Taste of Chocolate


Chocolate concocts the best in humanist wit;
Soft when warm, hard when cold and always brown.
History books mention Hildegard of Bingen,
An astute lady of religion and music
With a taste for things that the memory craves

Plasir du chocolat is the best shop in Edinburgh.
It sells pleasure!
It serves tea in cups, cakes on plates and images;
Blurred good life impressions of pretty women
Reading newspapers very like professors.

University wits scoff at the abuse of meters
but surely things must by themselves organise.
What is the rule for making people laugh?
Is the sage acting the clown
Or is the clown pretending to be wise?

Lucignano, 12 4 2006