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Inspired by Hemingway’s “Movable Feast,” and his quote,
Hemingway’s
“We ate well and cheaply and slept well
and warm together and loved each other.”
Artist Statement:
This poem explores parallel literary construction in poetry and cooking. Here, I try to recreate the construction of a hamburger, a relatively
inexpensive meal*. Each layer of a burger contains a seemingly disparate flavor. The burger is the frame for all these parallel tastes. Yet, together the part is greater than the whole.
And so it is with friends in our modern world. We all live our own busy lives, but when we get together we can get something magical that makes us enjoy things a little more. This is also a celebration about my time with the Taper Editorial Collective and the Trope Tank. We all do our own thing, but bring our work close and share it. I've truly enjoyed how much we create out of disparate experiences to reflect and push each other further.
Click on the melting cheese in order to stop time, savor the moment, and pause the poem.
Also inspired by Lupe Fiasco
Also inspired by "Words Between Buns" http://buns.life by Ian Bogost
...Text of the poem:
A burger In order
Crisp bottom laid down
Chargrilled juicy thrill
crunchy leaves one piece
Cheddar dream melted cheese
Tomato in sliced thin
Slab onions salt please
Top with one sesame bun
Grab that stack
don‘t hold back
All flavors Go savor
Parallels so swell
Textures alltogether.
*The code for Taper zine entries must be less than 2kB. This results in less words being used. Thus, the verbal and virtual cost of this poem is economical.