Posted in Food, Hermeticism, Humor, Imagination, Literature, Mystery, Poetry, Surrealism, Words, World, tagged blue, blue planet, galactic hitchhiker, Planet Blue, sci-fi on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am on a different planet every day,
and today’s planet is small – the horizon
curves nearby, and I’m afraid I’ll fall off
if I walk more than a mile. Five miles,
and I’d be standing on my head.
This planet is blue and patterned, as if
somebody had traced curves in the sand
on a beach. It is a pleasant, [...]
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Posted in Food, Humor, Imagination, Language, Life, Literature, World, tagged grotesque, meme, rubes, ruby, story, surreal on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
When we finally arrived in Ruby City, the ruby-red sunset was upon us. One of the citizens, steeped in the ruby-red light of the passing day, showed us the way to the Ruby Hotel, the only one in town.
We found out that same evening that everything edible and potable in Ruby City was ruby-red.
In fact, [...]
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She used to light up the bakery
with her friendliness and spunk,
and people were happy
to buy her rolls and crescents.
Her child was with her parents
while she was at work,
and she let her car-crazy husband be,
and money from the car factory
kept coming in. Now I run into her,
with child, at the supermarket,
and she’s drawn and pale,
divorced, living [...]
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Posted in Eden, Food, Life, Paradise, Satire, Words, tagged diet, eating, Food, health, heaven, piety, unhealthy on April 15, 2007 | No Comments »
You can’t eat yourself into Heaven.
While cooking together, my friend Mareike and I were talking about various diets and eating habits today.
I told her about one particularly healthy sanitarium where you don’t get anything to drink with your food because this is considered to be extremely unhealthy. I added that the staff there exude the [...]
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