A collection of poems and other writings...

Wednesday 8 July 2015

brain food

life is but a
melancholy flower

life is
and from youth the matter
suffers a decline
from the airy sanguine
through choleric blood
to the melancholic earth

life is butter
the phlegmatic young
may be enjoyed lightly inspired

life is but a melon
yellow bile
honeydew
black bile
piel de sapo

but with individuals displaying
a darker humour

other culinary techniques must be employed
up to the testing of by fire

for best results
look for a cream colouration
indicating a level of maturation
blood and phlegm

life is but a melon
Cantaloupe
Charentais
Galia
Galen
Water
Too, too solid Air

but not yet too advanced
while the firm flesh should offer
some light resistance

life is but a melancholy flower
blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm



as the palpating fingertips
carefully check each ventricle
for blemishes and irritations
pineal parasites, pests and aberrations
Other    Dark    Spots
the frogskin of encasing leaves
should be removed
and the stem severed at the base
to thus allow extraction
from the cranium case

having washed the whole
separate the lobes
parietal
occipital
frontal
temporal

a melancholy flower

and with a sharp blade
sever the cortex
right through the stem

"Basal ganglia" by Mikael Häggström and Andrew Gillies*
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File
:Basal_ganglia.svg#/media/File:Basal_ganglia.svg
from each segment
incise slices
no more and yet no less
than a centimetre thick
the which lay flat in your pan
non-stick

life is butter-melon
medulla oblongata

drizzle with a fine
extra virgin olive oil
or spread with rich butter
spice with whole cumin seed
then salt liberally

life is but a melon

a steady temperature
http://ohmyveggies.com/wp-content/uploads
/2012/08/cajun_roasted-cauliflower_steaks.jpg

Gas Mark 6 to 7
depending on the
thermal efficiency of your oven
will be sufficient
to tenderise the flesh
and caramelise the cauliflower

life is but a
life is but a
melancholy flower
melancholy flower
life is butter melon
life is but a melon
cauliflower

cauliflower




*
- Made in Inkscape. The following raster image was used for modelling:Basal-ganglia-coronal-sections-large.png (By Andrew Gillies/User:Anaru; Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike + GFDL license). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - 

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