Day 11: My Last Luna Bar

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My Last Luna Bar (with apologies to Robert Browning and Lizzie Skurnick)

That’s my last Luna Bar in my knapsack
Looking as if it were real food. I call
That bar a wonder, now: Fiber, protein,
Worked into a day’s supply of Vitamin C
“Will’t please you notice the Calcium?” I said
“Luna Bar” by design, for never knew
Strangers like you that orange-blue wrapper
The heft and satisfaction of its earnest nutrition,
But to myself they turned (since none extols
Nutz over Chocolate, quite like I)
And seemed they would ask me, if they durst
How such a love came to be, why not the Zone? So not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Friends, ‘twas not
My endorsement only, praised the Luna. Check the wrapper:
Anglea of Boulder chanced to say, “Laynie, You’ve
Brought light, hope and wonder to my life,” And “Because
Of you, I believe in miracles again. I love you, Momma.” Such stuff
Is sweet, I think, and cause enough
For calling up this spot of breakfast. I have
A stomach – how shall I say? – too soon made full
Too easily seduced; it likes whate’er
It looks on, and its looks go everywhere.
Friends, ‘twas all one! Chili’s, Too
Cinnabon, Pizza Hut personal pan pizza

At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together through security, friends. Notice Starbucks, though,
Here in Sky Harbor Airport, once thought a rarity,
Which Howard Schultz built just for me!

Or, to mangle another great poet: Ten days on the road, and I’m going to make it home tonight.

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15 thoughts on “Day 11: My Last Luna Bar”

  1. I am so happy to see you on NYT. just ordered it for a friends in fed prison, worked for a skunk and had a really bad lawyer…she loves mysteries, and gets out nest month, and she will have the whole backlist to look forward to. I felt bad that someone gave me the book, i wanted to participate in the bump up the ladder, and now i will.
    Bella1 (to differentiate from the famous bella blogger)

  3. Thanks for the great words in Scottsdale last night, Laura. The flower give-away was an inspired idea, and pleased the man and his lady, mazel tov on the reason for them. Glad you will make it home tonight, to your peops and more Luna bars. Wish we could have sent some of our weather with you!
    Debbie

  4. Congratulations on Another Thing to Fall. It’s very well written. I liked it a lot. They just keep getting better.

    I’d figure out some way to tease you about the lost twelve pounds, but it’s clear from ATtF, that you understand body image and the effect it has on Women. We’d be a lot better off, if your approach was more prevelant in popular culture. Thanks for doing that. It’s important.

    I apreciated the discussion of the role of TV, Movies, books, etc. I think that’s important, too. All done in a way, that wasn’t preachy, thugh that might have been tempting.

    Don

  5. Go ahead and tease me, Don. I’m a little bit ambivalent about being a size smaller, almost two, than Tess. I wish I were as healthy as she is.

    I made it home easily and even early, and the travel gods further arranged to have my suitcase come out quickly. It’s a beautiful early spring day in Baltimore and the late afternoon light is still a novelty.

    I didn’t have as many 2-W days as I wanted on this trip, but I wrote on the plane today, about 1,500 words. Still, it was back in Baltimore, doing a quick errand on foot, that I solved a particularly cumbersome problem in the book’s organization. Hey, Baltimore is my muse.

  6. Glad you’re home safe once again from what seemed to be a rather grueling tour. Your concoction about the trip and the Luna Bars was fun no matter who it was supposed to mangle. My favorite line in your post is “Hey, Baltimore is my muse.” I’m so glad your muse is working so well, it’s great to know there is yet another book in the works.

  10. I started laughing at my desk and my co worker kinda looked at me funny .. :)

    GREAT sonnet!

    I know you’ll be glad to be home! See you in October!

  12. Laura,

    I had misread your schedule, and thought
    that you were going to be at Common Good Books
    (Garrison Keillor’s shop) on Saturday night
    @ 7PM in St. Paul. Alas, that’s Friday night,
    and you’ll be at Once Upon A Crime in Mpls at
    4PM on Saturday.

    I hope that CGB offered (or if you’re a fan
    you asked for?) tickets to A Prairie Home
    Companion (Saturday afternoons in downtown St.
    Paul) and/or asked to interview you? But it
    looks like your schedule might not allow that.

    Robert

  14. I was in Murder By The Book in Denver today. Another customer was looking for new to her authors, in paperback for a trip. I butted in to the conversation to hand her a copy of WTDK. I was wearing a University of Michigan shirt, she’s an Ohio State Buckeye fan but she bought the book anyway! Congratulations on a successful tour.

  15. Laura,
    You won’t get teasing from me, on this issue. I think your use of body immage was well done and wish that more people would do so. Girls and a few boys get sick and even die from eating disorders to try and be as thin as the unreachable, for most body types, standard. I’ve picketed some fashion shows and organized people to send Maria Schriver, the California Govenor’s wife, food. I think she looks ill, she’s so thin. Fashion shows in LA now have a code, that they can only use thin models, that meet a health standard. But I think you book will probably reach more people, than my feable efforts.

    I think our society’s obsescion with thinness, is unhealty physically and psycologicaly.

    I’m sorry to have missed you in LA, but I couldn’t meet the required schedule. It sounds like you’re spending a lot of time getting into shape and I think you always look terrific. and evenmmore, when you’re going for it, like the time you changed aftere an event to go to, I think it was the Emmies a few years ago. I probably would have missed teh trench coat, anyway, as the weather was pretty warm in Southern California. Summer can come early, here.

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