Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Snack

Block of crumbly white feta
cheese, soaked in brine, ju
s
t there sitting in the fridge.
I could place on salty wheat
squares. Crunchy with som
e tang. I'm craving this now.

Immersed in a round plastic
world, sticker fro
m the farm
er’s market on exterior. So
chea
p and fresh. Smells an
d sigh
ts at theSix Flags of f
ood w
ere stimuli in extreme.

Hearing some jingling groo
ves flowing in a
nd out bring
ing thought
s back and forth,
from feta
to wondering abo
ut…not re
calling. Block ba
ck in mind. Blockhead.


You are so lovely, so delec
ta
bly cheesy, such a great
tex
ture. I had you sub-par f
or l
unch today on my gyro,
but
You in the fridge are m
ine and I will savor You.


Feta is better they say. I co
ncur. I got
it once for X-mas
as a gift from parents
. Stra
nge child I was but it ca
n't b
e helped when one dis
cove
rs this cheese perfection.


I’m sure there are better, m
ore sophisticated one
s out
there. Probably moldy,
prob
ably French. But this on
e in
the fridge delivers satisf
act
ion. Fresh and ready.


Maybe it's not so fresh. Ho
w lo
ng has it been there, w
aitin
g to be eaten while I d
ote o
n it from afar? Might b
e a moldy cheese by now.
On second

thought,

I'd rather
have

some
Nutella

instead.

3 comments:

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  2. I'm not really sure what I was thinking. This looks like a poem but I suppose the idea was to make it appear like blocks, blocks of thought and blocks of feta cheese with a crumble down in the end when it no longer becomes appetizing. The subject matter is just the story of me sitting in my room writing this but thinking about other things so I suppose it's not that interesting. Just kind of ran out of ideas.

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  3. Well, it's a kind of fun experiment with voice, this kind of neurotic and hungry wondering about the cheese, but, despite being hungry, the narrator never quite digs in, gets distracted. Maybe as interesting as all that are the strange deformations of the words that occur by trying to keep the form consistent. Not sure how else this might be useful, but the results are so interesting, it's hard not to see them as having some application elsewhere.

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