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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

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


Another poem

Death to all systems
Destruction to all structures
Music is an endless ocean
Purple rose overdose
Velvet haze fierce gaze
Only fuzz gives us the buzz
Hold your eyes
Make me ice/ace
What is life/lice?
Which suffice?


TSL Pandorathon Prompt May 27th Based on Bob Dylan's famous quote "You can't be in love and wise at the same time"

 TSL Pandorathon Prompt May Twenty Sixth

Based on Bob Dylan's famous quote "You can't be in love and wise at the same time"
When we were young
Your smile shone
a diamond in the night
the sun at noon
The distance
natural
between the sun
and earth
Drunk in heat
Just a nobody
Living off the light
The sun shone on it
The earth hates the sun
Inseparable love
Knowing the sun loves it
Knowing it will always be different
Far away the sun
Had other planets too
Spinning
The earth turned its back on it
Repeatedly
the sun and the earth met
Came and went
closer and apart
That's what lovers (don't) do
That's what love /doesn't/ do(es)
Love does what hate doesn't
Love can't be love and wise
Only constant
At one and the same time

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