The Prodigal Daughter

there's so much to say with these words
when i can not sleep
when i can not be held
accountable
                      any
                                    longer
	
though i should
i engineered it all
but no i did not
they come crawling
on hands and knees
bloodying themselves
to get what no one else can give
not whatever lover
or friend they choose
they see it in me
and they want to take it
so no i can not be held
accountable
                      any
                                    longer
	
i take it all down
inside of myself
to spill out on this scrn
for a stranger to stumble
across while meandering
through boredom
and i need this confession
this keyboard my preist
my room a confessional
for strangers to hear
and i will not be held
accountable
                      any
                                    longer
	
it's so easy to pin
it to an unkown src
something greater then
my own wretched self
but what if we are what
camus suggested and that
the end is death?
the stranger is really
all too familiar
and even he could
not face himself and be
accountable
                      any
                                    longer

the air is winter electric
on the day after the
full lunar episode
his eyes match the sky today
a gray
and i can’t even see the city
behind the fog
i can only see an electric tower
its’ crissed crossed currents
it’s beautiful industrial art
and i swear i never saw it before

and what of the episode?
it was lost to whiskey
mixed with soda and a lime slice
the people i met
that were not you
you did not show face
yet later i confessed
under duress of my own conscious
and all you could do
was agree

opn src material:
the original manuscript
or song now covered by
another artist
or film
which would now be what
it is
old to new to old
reformat recycle
the old clinches
the archetypes and stories
	
i read the short version
and i only scanned the lines
the truth was missing and
i could have shot her in the eye
ohhhh who is wendy anyway?
the run away to love
the run off heroine
	
opn src material:
data not found
how very convenient
to erase the prototype
for the new auteur
to drink a
creativity gimlet
of past success
to look into souless evil
eyes that are the same
color of old
and see yerself
old to new to old
	
did you verify your story
with a witness?
or check your src?
my dear blood
the rage inside my soul
will someday come
kicking and screaming
from my womb and
shoot across a dirty
south philadelphian floor

When I am bored at work I do a number of things. Look at fashion, photography, or food blogs. Food blogs are awesome! So many pictures and recipes of food which generate great ideas for me to make when I get home. I found a food blog recently that is entitled: Konosur, The art of pretentious eating for the bourgeoisie crowd. It is fantastic. There are recipes for curries, cookies, and just about everything else. The pictures are also wonderful. I am totally making the Chana Dhal (Indian Lentils). WORD!

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4 cups Raw Pumpkin (diced)
8 cups Veggie Broth (you should see other posts in consumed section)
Marjoram
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Ginger (if raw you can add this while you make the vegetable broth, if dry add later)
3 apples
1/2 cup OJ

Prepare the pumpkin. This came from a pumpkin that i had stolen from some poor sap in jersey on the night before my Poppies funeral. Anyway. Dice it up in fairly large chunks, be sure you cut off the skin and the slimy bits. Cut up about 4 or 5 cups, enough so that there is not a lot of broth, this is going to be more a puree then a traditional soup.

Bring veggie broth to boil

Add pumpkin, potatoes, apples

Cook until pumpkin is soft

Add OJ and seasonings (i don’t measure things i just do them to taste…use your best judgement)

Use immersion blender to puree everthing together

Pumpkin soup at its’ most delicous!

1 head of escarole (roughly chopped)
2 carrots (diced)
1 stalk of celery (diced)
2 leeks (diced and rinsed)
2 small onions (diced)
5 cloves garlic (minced)
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1/2 cup Red Quinoa
1 can black eyed peas (or white beans or chick peas)
10 cups water
Oregano
Salt
Oil
Parmesean (grated)
Pepper

Make the veggie Broth by combining carrots, onions, leeks, celery and a little salt and oil

Simmer until softened slightly

Add water and bring to a boil…let this boil for a while

Strain out veggies to just get the broth

Add Escarole, tomatoes, beans, quinoa, and seasoning (be sure to rinse all the dirt from the leaves!)

Bring to another boil and then turn the heat down to simmer

You know it’s done when the escarole is no longer crunchy in the least

Serve it up in a bowl and add some Parmesean!