Andreas Weiland
What's Cookin'
for Manue and Mike…
she combed her
magical hair
he dreamed of
touching it
but could not until
that secret moment
that both keep now
in their hearts
& to themselves
in old England
the pueri made firebrands
on Saint John's Day
fires of St. Jean
to cook up stories
of things and men longgone
What's-cookin', he asked
BECAUSE because
we desire truth
what myth was hidden
(he did not ask)
Le cru et le cuit
how do you translate THAT
when the old traditions
do not answer any longer
the imperatives of new circumstances
and marriage? she said
the eternal recurrence
of joining split halves?
It is a god / joining them
couples are wed in heaven
bread and butter
the oven makes the dough
merge & fuse with the meat
is it like that, then?
and religious phenomena are in tension
between the eternal (AS THEY CALL IT)
and the mutable
a coming-to-be (a “not yet,” Bloch said)
and 'the here-and-now'
and marriages are not
the same as yesteryear these days
and each of us gropes for an
understanding
we know / and don't know
our everyday myths the Mythen des Alltags
constantly in a state of becoming... Leach said
they're generated by you by him
by her by me & all of us
IN SITUATIONS
(specific socio-economic
socio-psychological
socio-historical contexts)
Ask Levi-Strauss
by chance, came across
the Niederrheinisches Kochbuch
wherein, next to all
that belongs to this art
and that is dealt with, in great detail
the different home-economical and
economical advantages are also taught
'xcuse me HOW DO I GET
TO CHLODWIG SQUARE?
the stranger called
(it was his first visit, to Cologne)
Best thing is
to take the tram, replied the conductor
This tram?, the stranger asked
I don't care, said the conductor
How, then, do we transform
the everywhen
into the here-and-now ?
husbands beaten by their wives
“riding backwards” on an ass –
that was pretty long ago
At a village near Avesnes,
the Fête des Durmenés … was always held
on Saint Lawrence's Day
BUT THEY DON'T RIDE ON IT ANY MORE
even if they make an ass of themselves
UNTER'M PANTOFFEL
AS THEY WOULD SAY IN KOLN
and the man holds his own tail
and the woman?
I remember that place, Avesnes
coming from Mons, hitchhiking to Paris
in 1970
patriarchy had its strange reversals
and still has –
nonetheless, it is real
& Matriarchy, longgone
and would we return to it
it would be shit, too
no less than male dominance
Can we bake a different world?
HOPE FOR THE THIRD
beyond thesis
and antithesis?
The nature of the war of sexes
concocted by those who prefer
anthropological constants
but the food changes
and so does the manner of eating
WE DON'T EXPECT VIRGIN BIRTH, ANYMORE
AND SOME KIDS KNOW THE OTHER SEX
AT AN AGE WHEN THEIR DADS WERE
CONSIDERED GRUEN like lettuce
BEHIND THE EARS
(still wet, that is)
IT IS TRUE, we have no theoretical insight yet
into les structures ... de la parenté
everyone relies on trial and error
is it the best way?
THE ONLY ONE
LEFT FOR US?
The ritual of courting / over now
let's work together
let's create art
The art of loving, not the least of all arts
and the art of cooking together
– not bad, eh?
From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art
I remember Tony, now, Tony Morgan
in those days in
Amsterdam Duesseldorf Genève
Cologne, too. Yes Koln.
Wenn alle Kuenste untergehn
(come on, was that celebrated
over at the Brouwersgracht, too?)
die edle Kochkunst (come on
even in Amsterdam, no kiddin')
bleibt bestehn, bleibt, stays alive
marriage rules, by their very nature,
are interrelated
with behaviour
and the analysis of their
internal
logical coherence
cannot be divorced from
their immediate consequences
on a practical plane
didn't know, until today,
about La Cucina di Beuys...
Die KUNST AUF DEM WEG ZUM LEBEN
(life not separated from art, or vice versa?
OR BOTH WAYS – WECHSELWIRKUNG intended?)
Old Shakes would have liked that:
Comer o no comer
Reflections on comida
arte
y communication
the “realm of rules”
(SOMETHING EVERY COOK KNOWS
EVERY PRIEST EVERY CHEMICAL ENGINEEER)
not simply determined
by the “infrastructure”
(economics, politics, kinship etc.)
but ALSO, AND MORE DIRECTLY, MAYBE
by mental constraints
faced with
THE SURFACE MEANING OF LOVE
OF UNION
OF THE CAKE BAKED
THE FISH FRIED
do we find truth
in the discovery
of their LATENT STRUCTURE?
Nature and culture
the raw and the cooked
ripping of the clothes and
biting into the penis
the protruding breast
myth yields a strict symmetry
Claude claimed
the young – the old
(such binary opposites)
DON'T REDUCPLICATE
the interplay of history
and the present
they both eat food
that was prepared today
AND YET, the young long for
the gentle embrace
of an old couple
and the old remember
(or dream of)
orgiastic seconds, minutes and days
Dionysian bacchanalia
A MYTH, even then
let us say No, then
to everything and everyone
determined to discourage
and to make us wither
As every woman and man is an artist
(IN NUCE, or blooming already)
how can we not hope
for a Leipzig of tomorrow
a blooming, just world
where spring ceases to be icy
and summer –
no time of endless drought
Discover. Search. Experiment.
Care. Love. Wonder.
Wanderers, we are.
From place to place –
rooted in hope
July 1, 2013
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