One has to be a hobbyist--or for lack of a better word, a dilettante. The hobbyist/dilettante must function as the laborer while transforming the service connotations associated with the work from a pedestrian mentality to that of an artisan/artist.

POEM: Serving Function

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Veggie Primavera, Spinach Ravioli, Ravioli Sauce

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) M is for Marketing, (2) Gallery-Aged Echoes, (3) Duplex Legacy, (4) Where to Now?, (5) Tricks of the Trade

Am I your strangling strange or passing passion fruit? Plucky am I--a choice pick indeed!

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) Arena Discourse, (2) Convenient Comfort, (3) Digital Assets, (4) Data Delivery, (5) Balancing Incoherence

These recreations (yours and mine) will suffice as repeaters--leftovers from circumstances outstanding time, yet boxed in memory.

POEM: Fathom Memory

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Greco-Rainbow Trout

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) Read Between the Ellipses, (2) Here and Now [coming and going], (3) Assembling Cerebricity, (4) Artful Economics, (5) Mystery and History Presently

Inspiration is an obliged fulfillment of progressive creation, whereas urgency is a situated enactment of sheer force. This rampant logic is manifested in binge cooking.

POEM: Binge Cooking

FOODSTUFF LISTING: Roasted Salmon Mushroom Noodles