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Paul J Penton – Songwriter
“Release the Muse”
Cake- Daily Object Writing- Oct 28
I am handed an arrow head of cake on a flimsy piece of toweling to celebrate the departure of a colleague – is it a celebration this departure or should we mourn? As that slice of deep brown chocolate mud sluices through my mouth I don’t care. The fuzzy texture disintegrates in my mouth like a snow melt and rivers of chocolate sensation are freed to make the waterfall journey to my tummy.
I often just indulge, giving no thought to the process, but today I rise out of myself and follow a pathway back through time to the delivery of the box, to it’s sitting in a glassed cabinet at one of the major name department stores under bright lights neatly clothed in a brown suit of chocolate icing, small squiggles of artistic adornment snaking their way around it- I follow the time line back to an industrial bakery where chefs in blue lined aprons pour industrial strength ingredients into giant beaters that whirr away like portable generators at a road construction site, to the moment the aroma of fresh baked goodness slid out of an oven……