This bergamot,
looking so green
but tasting so orange,
hoax-nosed you
like a street juggler,
like dizzy lemon-lime
snout dancers and
now-you-smell-them-now-you-don’t
sniffpockets
whiffing you the rind,
this fruit
the biggest
slight-of-snoot trick
of all time
For April Poem a Day
qbit 
Laughing here – opens up a whole new category of grafters, grifters and geezers to watch out for.
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LOL, thanks!
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This is wonderful. Though when I was pregnant I had to give up drinking Earl Grey tea because it tasted “too green”.
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Thanks, I forgot bergamot was part of what gives Earl Grey tea that distinctive flavor!
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Well done, Randall. Now I know what it is I’m experiencing as I steep our morning teas. I’m an Irish Breakfast guy, but she likes to spend mornings with the Earl. Wonderfully written/imaged.
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That is very generous of you. Thanks. Watch out for those sniffpockets, they are the worst.
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Excellent word play!
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I was desperate.
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Just under the wire, I see.
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She was turning out the lights on me!
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“But’s it’s 11:54 – I can make it; I know I can!”
“Dang; I need a poem in 6 minutes…” LOL
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I got a bergamot essential oil recently and I have no idea what I thought it was but I definitely didn’t think it was citrus til I opened up! Lol. Great piece, lots of laughs here!
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Thanks!!
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