Sunday, August 17, 2008

Food Haiku

I was drinking coffee at my apartment the other day and of all things, it inspired me to write some haiku-all of which, for whatever reason, ended up being about food, perhaps evidence of my lament concerning the ever-rising cost of food in this country.

The curls of the cream
In my coffee twist and turn
Somehow sinister.

Sometimes I subsist
On just grilled cheese sandwhiches
And tomato soup.

When someone makes me
A hot breakfast, my heart warms
More than my stomach.

Speaking of cream-curls, last year around this time, my coworkers and I spent a surprising amount of time taking pictures of cream falling and swirling into iced tea.

I'm quite fine with being so easily amused in this fashion.

2 comments:

Kj said...

love these

and grilled cheese and tomato soup is not subsistence- it's bliss!

Ryan said...

Hehe, these are great. And you know that I have to throw in a Buffy quote:

"I'm glad you like poetry, Buffy."
"I wish I had time for it, but...I don't right now."
"Well, maybe short poems."
"Yeah! Like those, um, Japanese ones that...sound like a sneeze?"
"Haiku?"
"Right!"