Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Pasta Noodle Armies

   

“I mean, if the spaghetti hits the fan, now we’re really in trouble.”

—Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove



swimming with spaghettis
around your neck
                your death
                nears,
the color of spaghetti sauce
almost the color of
                        and you look
like me, er, like meat
ready for dinner, whichever—
                        ready-to-eat,
                            each
                        a ready meat,
                        ready me
                        ready to eat,

in spaghetti sauce!

ideally in communist countries
they serve dinners for
            the whole community

which in democratic countries
are self-served
            tho individuals have
            a choice . . .

but their choice engulfs them
            in desire that
            they become too

noisy to ever notice other
                dreamers
            dreaming of swimming
            in sad wine after

getting bits of pork.

in communist countries
they serve dinner for
            the whole community,

ideally, but their communities
            engulf them in such
            a passion that
            they become too
noisy to ever notice lone
                dreamers
            dreaming of swimming
            in unique recipes after

getting sauce.

whoosh! whoosh!
we look like meat—er, meet
            let us!?
ready to cook, ready-to-eat
ready meat, ready to eat—

never mind the sauce
reminding you of,
or precisely coz sauce
is almost the color of





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