Dada Is My Name

Plate is my name Plate is my name, don’t dish me, I’m simple, usually round but sometimes rectangular, square, but who really cares when you can lick me all clean. The Greeks like to break me, but not out of anger, I call it joy and it feels good. Eat great meals off of me, present cheeses and schnitzels and peas, and when you’re all done soap me up, rinse, and wash me. I’m usually quite plain, white and black are usually my colours, but I can be patterned, labelled, branded, painted, and gold lined. ‘Plate up’, they say, and I respond, ‘how do you know?’ But let’s forget about that and talk about how I usually get stacked up with lots of friends in dark confined spaces, where none of us move until we are moved. Plate is my name, don’t take me for granted, but I am very common, just like that cliché, Plate is my name, don’t forget to lick me Photo by  Oscar Nord  on  Unsplash

Face is my name Face is my name, you can book me in later, I’m on every cover, go save me. I’m out front, I represent what’s behind, underneath, I’ve been called pretty, handsome, and ugly and many other names, the same names I am projected onto. What makes up me? Traditionally, human centric, eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks and you could also include the ears, chin, and jaw plus a forehead and hair. Also the skin, how deep does it go? On top can be smooth or rather hairy. They say you got to Face the music, I try to do that they tell me to face the front and I reply, “I already am!”. There are many copies of me, some would even say that there are ones ‘kissable’ two faces colliding to one Whatever the way, whatever you do, you will most likely see me but not what’s beyond me, Face is my name, come and greet me!

Something is my name Something’s my name, I’m not fussy what thing, although I don’t want to be COVID-19. People always tell me to “do Something!” and I reply “I do plenty of myself, thank-you!” “and that’s none of your business, FU!” I’m envious of Nothing, no, serious, I am envious of Nothing who is never heard, touched, or seen, waiting to spring into me. “You got to do Something!” and I say, “Yes Please!” “Do me right now, I am begging you!” Something is always around the corner , is a popular saying, but I promise I have much better things to do than to be spying on you! I do get massively favoured by most of the world, who think they’re too good for Nothing. But that’s not saying much, and they don’t know much, I am much fetishized, overrated. It sucks being me all day without rest, “You don’t get Something for Nothing” they stupidly tease, I try not to run but I too easily do. But Something I am, don’t grow up to be me, S...

Try is my name Try is my name, I try all the time, I try too hard they all tell me. My good friends are Effort, Persistence, and Fool, we have lots of fun, when we’re not working. But even our fun turns Competitive and Scheduled, 2 more of my friends who are and can be awesome or stupid and everything in between. I don’t think enough, I’m all about DO and with Do I Do Do many things! Bukowski has Don’t Try on his headstone, he wasn’t a fan, or maybe he was, just not how the crowd interprets me. ‘Try-Hards’ are dissed in High School, it’s not cool to be me or to receive achievement from me. A world full of me, and look how well we are going! (I was being sarcastic) Just read the Tao Te Ching and all the great wisdom who look on bemused at people like me, people of action, people busy… and even Jesus said: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin” And why am I telling you all thi...