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Comfort Food (Free verse) by jessicazee A being can crawl into a kreplach
Or expand within a stuffed shell
Fists clenched, rageless.
Blintz bliss in a girdle of papery crepe -
A snug lumpia in hand
Softens a beast in the body.
A vessel, full filled, becomes
Pillows for smallest children,
Vital hugs, dumplings.
A breast, a pierogi
Embraced by slender
Rinds of vellum and pulp.
To be or to ravioli,
The pot stickers
Have answers, have nature.
Up the ladder:
oedipus is raising a pint to me now
Down the ladder:
Malaries
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Posted: October 21, 2002 7:47 PM PDT; Last modified: October 21, 2002 7:47 PM PDTWeighted score: 6.0569563 Overall Rank: 1187 Comments:
Don't forget the gnocchi. Every 11th day of the month. You have offended my ethnic sensibilities by your glaring exclusion. Even the Asians are represented by those oily little slugs they try to pass off as dumplings Hmpff!
Ravioli are Italian! I was going for the foods that are filled or stuffed. I guess I left out empanadas, meat pies, tamales, shumai, etc.
I was just teasing. Good poem. Gnocchi is my favorite comfort food and seem to fit your them, lovely little pillows that they are. Yuo couldn't possibly list them all.
Hmmmmmm. A reasonable effort. It requires reading three times though.
an interesting poem, the mixture of the two sets of
imagery is repellant, brings to mind eating disorders, perhaps that was the intention of the poet, no matter a poem takes on a life of its own once it is born. Smooth blending of imagery, I don't know what to make of the, hmm, old world nature of the foods mentioned...
"snug lumpia" are better than pierogis any day. this was a great poem and still will be later, after 'was'.
To be or to ravioli??!! Oh gosh darn, I love those food metaphors! Sweet stuff.
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