Playing the mayor of Flavourtown Flavortown was a challenge
Not least because I had never seen
Flavortown before
An episode of diners & drive-ins & dives
(a title which I found out
from a Wikipedia trip)
(the only trip you go on which
can last a 30 seconds)
But it was actually a sort of mistake
Because all I knew was ‘fieri’ was ‘become’ (in Latin)
(pass.infinitive, present tense)
And I was on the train to Oxford
(and I hadn’t played D&D before)
And I was talking through in texting
And I knew the name fieri
So I said the name fieri
When he said “are you actually
making me read the backstory
of
ye olde knight Guy Fieri”
(and I remember the sky was gorgeous
(amber-gold and silhouette
(of a pylon swept in transit
(as I stared out and I dreamt-)
And I look back and the message
is ‘ye olde knight Guy Fieri?’
And I said I guess- yeah?
I guess I really am
Katherine Knight can be followed on Twitter @codaevermore.