TSL Pandorathon May 26th Dinner-menu based poem

 TSL Pandorathon May 26th Dinner-menu based poem

The restaurant was called Nalukettu

I went there in a dream

Wonder how many would remember that old scene

The dwarapalikas were alive and dancing

And the table was set for one

As if just for me

They put before me the traditional customary plantain leaf

And brought first a pair of fish eyes

for starters, for good luck

Matsya kanyaka's or hilsa's

It could be one or the other or both

All the way from Kolkatta

It was going to be a many course meal

I could feel

Shoulder of lamb from Kerala

fried, dripping in oil

From Thiruvananthapuram

Breast of chicken

from Kottayam

The ham was from somewhere in Rajasthan

Then there was a mixed gourmet dish

Stretching halfway across the world

Camel meat from the Middle East

Smoking burnt black barbecue from New Orleans

Sirloin of cow and thighs of quail meat

A Texan delicacy

Legs of a frog for the end of the meal

from the underworld where the sirens sang and Circe lived

Then washing it down with condensed milk and tender coconut water

Stange menu in a dream

For dinner

I exaggerate not

I eat surreal nightmares

You can call me a cannibal

But it is all just sweet summer flesh

of cantaloupe and its seeds

cut in half in jest

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Destruction to all structures

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Velvet haze fierce gaze

Only fuzz gives us the buzz

Hold your eyes

Make me ice/ace

What is life/lice?

Which suffice?