Fodder

[Alan Sondheim]

Fodder

not since the beginning of fodder have I felt the necessity of reinventing
the protozoan against a background of the natural world, already a
reconstitution from the presence of what had been merely a cultural
artifact.

http://www.asondheim.org/blanked.mov

     But most of all good eating cheers the brain,
         Where other joys are rarely met -- at sea --
     Unless, indeed, we lose as soon as gain --
         Ay, there's the rub so baffling oft to me.
     Boiled, roast, and baked -- what precious choice of dishes
         My generous throat has shared among the fishes!

     'T is sweet to leave, in each forsaken spot,
         Our foot-prints there -- if only in the sand;
     'T is sweet to feel we are not all forgot,
         That some will weep our flight from every land;
     And sweet the knowledge, when the seas I cross,
         My briny messmates! ye will mourn my loss.

-- Thomas Ward, quoted by Edgar Allen Poe -- the subject is sea-sickness.