2022年2月3日 星期四

plop (PUT), broth, roe, at all costs















Bodies age. Bodies die. Sculptures, sometimes, endure. A decade ago in Venice, before “Boy With Frog” was removed, the Pinault team installed guards and motion detectors around the nude child with the dangling amphibian, and even plopped a Plexiglas box on him at night to keep away vandals. Back then, the sculpture had to remain pristine in order to be perfect.

“Autumn Leaves”
Plop the live lobster into boiling water and let it scream.
You both turn red.
Of course you have to eat it dead.
There can be unfertilized roe
That will turn red also, maliciously delicious, called coral.
The colder the ocean waters the lobster came from, the sweeter
The meat boiled in the brain of heat.

The lobster at the end is as incontinent as falling leaves and doesn’t know.

“Autumn Leaves,” by Frederick Seidel

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I LOVE shopping at my local Gourmet Garage as much as the next guy. But sometimes I plop a can of chicken broth down on the checkout counter and think, “$2.19? For someone to boil chicken bones? I want that job.”


roe1
rəʊ/
noun
  1. the mass of eggs contained in the ovaries of a female fish or shellfish, especially when ripe and used as food; the full ovaries themselves.
    "lumpfish roe is most like caviar"
    • the ripe testes of a male fish, especially when used as food.
      noun: soft roe; plural noun: soft roes


plop (PUT)
verb [I or T; + adverb or preposition] -pp-
to sit down or land heavily or without taking care, or to put something down without taking care:
He came and plopped down next to me.
Lynn plopped a paper cup down beside her.



broth

━━ n. (薄い)肉汁.
a broth of a boy いかすやつ.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. 船頭多くして船山に登る.

船頭(せんどう)多くしてふねやまのぼる

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