Complicity's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Complicity2003-05-06T01:19:50ZElephant garlic (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/Elephant+garlicComplicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-05-06T01:19:50Z2003-05-06T01:19:50Z<p>You're walking down the <a href="/title/produce">produce</a> aisle, or strolling through a <a href="/title/farmer%2527s+market">farmer's market</a>*, when something wonderful catches your eye. <em>Oh la la!</em> That must be the largest <a href="/title/garlic">garlic</a> ever! Those <a href="/title/clove">clove</a>s are big as a whole head of regular garlic and that means, that means - less peeling, more garlic!</p>
<p>Well, wait. That garlic isn't really what you're thinking. You should know elephant garlic (also called <a href="/title/heap+big+animal">buffalo</a> garlic) is actually <em>Allium ampeloprasum</em>, not our good friend <em>allium sativum</em>: still of the <a href="/title/lily">lily</a> family, <a href="/title/allium">allium</a> genus, but more closely related to <a href="/title/leek">leek</a>s. Now, leeks are good folks, just ask the <a href="/title/Welsh">Welsh</a>, but they don't pack the <em>ka-pow!</em> you look for in garlic. Aside from being large, the other notable characteristic of this elephant is its <a href="/title/mildness">mildness</a>.</p>
<p>My first reaction to that was, <em>ah well. <a href="/title/Genetically+modified+foods">Science</a> has done to the garlic what it did to the <a href="/title/strawberry">strawberry</a>: made it large and <a href="/title/bland">bland</a>, and in no time at all people<!-- close unclosed tag --></em><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…you breathe when your body makes you (person)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/you+breathe+when+your+body+makes+youComplicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-05-06T01:16:12Z2003-05-06T01:16:12Z<p><strong>You</strong> try to define a <a href="/title/self">self</a> for <a href="/title/when+am+i+an+adult%253F">years</a>, exercising a mind and body which seem oddly rebellious ginst the self they comprise. A <a href="/title/synthesis">third</a><a href="/title/mediation"> party</a> is not forthcoming. Your most cerebral moments are interrupted by hunger - and in the gasp of stubbing a toe on the way downstairs in search of bread or peanut butter, ideas <a href="/title/See+the+swirling+colors+from+the+vortex+of+your+mind">burst like rockets</a> in the black sky of a pain-blanked mind. This division is inherent in every language you've inherited, so much so that you dream of introducing them, <a href="/title/And+I+screamed+in+myself%252C+thinking+oh%252C+to+give+myself+crashing%252C+fighting+to+you.">bringing them together</a>, hoping they'll <a href="/title/the+spirit+of+the+idea+will+inform+the+body">hit it off</a> and wed two entities into one; a <a href="/title/The+illusion+of+the+independent+self">union</a> as effortless as <a href="/title/Yin%252C+yang%252C+and+the+other+thing">silvery indivisible fish</a>, dancing through the <a href="/title/Entropy+and+irony+live+together+in+perfect+harmony">water</a> they<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/I+am+in+love+with+so+much+more+than+your+body+heat%252C+but+let%2527s+start+thereComplicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-03-28T09:00:03Z2003-03-28T09:00:03Z<p>The days are getting <a href="/title/You+make+a+light+in+the+world+and+you+hope+someone+can+still+look+up+from+the+dust+for+long+enough+to+see+it">longer</a> again.<br>
These are <a href="/title/this+word+is+so+easy+to+just+use+lightly+but+sometimes+it+is+itself+and+what+it+means+is+%2522we%2522">our</a> first <a href="/title/I+could+take+this+in+doses+large+enough+to+kill">longer</a> days.<br>
When you arrived it was already getting <a href="/title/being+born+is+going+blind">colder</a>.</p>
<p>It is that <a href="/title/signs+of+life">sign of life</a> we feel most viscerally -<br>
a pulse is <a href="/title/my+experiment+in+not+paying+attention+to+numbers">academic</a>, <a href="/title/smoke+and+mirrors">misted glass</a> echoes <a href="/title/snake+oil">flummery</a> - <br>
but <a href="/title/i+wanna+see+it+untame+itself+and+break+its+owner">heat</a>,<br>
it inheres in the <a href="/title/dressed%252C+out+the+door%252C+dreaming">body</a> as life itself.</p>
<p>Do they say the alcohol burns?<br>
It makes itself known, <a href="/title/My+heart+is+a+still+and+my+blood+is+whiskey.+Take+a+shot+of+me+beneath+the+moon.">throat-searing</a> or<br>
curling up in my <a href="/title/written+on">belly</a> like a pile of drowsy kittens.<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Dressed, out the door, dreaming (place)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/Dressed%252C+out+the+door%252C+dreamingComplicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-02-04T01:34:35Z2003-02-04T01:34:35Z<p align="center">On my way to <a href="/title/6%253A59+am">work</a>,<br>
i am not thinking of <a href="/title/scruffy+whiskers+against+your+smooth+skin">crack</a><a href="/title/urban+decay">ed cem</a><a href="/title/noble+rot">e</a><a href="/title/the+accidental+beauty+of+the+industrial+district">nt</a>,<br>
<a href="/title/To+all+the+cold+people+who+want+to+be+warm+again">weeds thro</a><a href="/title/Before+you+thought+of+spring">ugh a</a><a href="/title/a+Spring%252C+with+gentle+unfurling+and+sly+days+of+sunshine">sph</a><a href="/title/the+first+flower+of+spring">alt</a>,<br>
my <a href="/title/I+am+in+love+with+so+much+more+than+your+body+heat%252C+but+let%2527s+start+there.">cold fingers</a>.<br><br>
<a href="/title/You%2527re+so+beautiful+you+wake+me+in+my+sleep">I</a> am thinking of how <a href="/title/January+9%252C+2003">our bo</a><a href="/title/Written+on">dies</a><br>
drift together in sleep<br>
like <a href="/title/from+the+forest+to+the+mill%252C+giants%252C+dangerous%252C+on+their+way+to+another+life">logs</a>, <a href="/title/I+turn+over+in+bed%252C+brush+against+your+warmth%252C+and+know+it+is+you.">turning</a> slowly in a <a href="/title/You+grabbed+my+hand%252C+and+we+fell+into+it.+Like+a+daydream.+Or+a+river.">river</a>.</p>
broccoli (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/broccoliComplicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-01-27T21:54:54Z2003-01-27T21:54:54ZOf the vegetables, the <a href="/title/celery">stem</a>, the <a href="/title/chard">leaf</a>, the <a href="/title/parsnip">root</a>, all these have attained, have come into themselves. Even the fruit, self-satisfied in its fertility, is as much ripe completion as it is beginning. But the broccoli is not even <a href="/title/squash+flower+soup">flower</a> <a href="/title/floret">yet</a>! Tighter than the luxurious <a href="/title/druplets">druplets</a> of a berry, these green or purple buds might tremble with pure potential and becoming if <a href="/title/If+we+could+build+things+out+of+concepts%252C+I%2527d+have+pants+made+of+lust">we could see these things</a>.
<blockquote>As you probably know, broccoli is of the <a href="/title/cabbage">cabbage</a> family - <i>brassica</i> - along with <a href="/title/cauliflower">cauliflower</a>, <a href="/title/brussels+sprouts">brussels sprouts</a>, and, well, cabbages of all descriptions. You can edify yourself greatly by reading <a href="/title/sneff">sneff</a>'s writeup on <a href="/title/cabbage">the topic</a> - even learn why you should never, <a href="/title/oh+god%252C+the+smell%2521">never overcook it</a>. One day I will understand why overcooked broccoli smells like wind from the papermill town of <a href="/title/Berlin%252C+New+Hampshire">Berlin, New Hampshire</a>. Perhaps these chemicals are it. That does<!-- close unclosed tag --></blockquote>…January 9, 2003 (person)http://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity/writeups/January+9%252C+2003Complicityhttp://m.everything2.com/user/Complicity2003-01-09T05:02:58Z2003-01-09T05:02:58Z<blockquote><small><em>Lovers, each satisfied in the other, I ask <br>
you about us. You grasp yourselves. Have you a sign?</em>
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<p>
duration. <br>
<a href="/title/The+uncarved+block">Stones</a> do not know their <a href="/title/I+throw+up+my+hands.+I+have+no+plans.">future</a> when quarried.<br>
<a href="/title/Forces+of+nature%252C+strong+and+nonmoral">Gravity</a> does not know anything.<br>
The architects have gone to <a href="/title/it+is+better+to+be+heartbroken+than+to+have+a+heart+not+worth+breaking">sleep</a>.<br>
Any order is <a href="/title/We+met+in+a+dream%252C+we+were+falling+off+a+bridge">fortuitous</a>, not natural,<br>
will future history-writers believe <a href="/title/Born+with+the+gift+of+laughter%252C+and+a+sense+that+the+world+was+mad">it</a>?<br>
We lean together,<br>
and a wind blows <a href="/title/fragments+of+a+world%252C+and+the+spaces+between+them">through this arch</a><br>
like <a href="/title/the+circle+was+closed+again%252C+as+ancient+custom+requires%252C+with+a+kiss">breath over a flute</a>.<br>
Hold. Hold that<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…