Sunday, January 22, 2006

"the ghost of material things" --Gérard de Nerval and the Bad Rhymer


I thought those everyday things
had been long thrown away...
but then I discovered them
on a friend´s webpage today.

A message, like the food,
read and discarded
appears as a trivial memory
a pleasure surface-hearted.

(No, I don't like inside jokes either, so I'll turn this inside-out: I often left messages on food for my housemates in Barcelona. The cookie box reads: "eat me because I'm yummy and I don't want to make Megan fat" and the banana: "thank you for printing.")