I Do Not Love You Brown Rice

I do not love you brown rice, even as you sit in the pantry slum for untouchables.

At one time, you waited on a higher shelf to please hippie girls who arrived unannounced looking for you and your bad-ass brother bulgur; and sometimes for me to cook them and talk of revolution and other middle-class fantasies.

Arborio has taken your place and I love it in exactly the way I don’t love you — with morels and butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano and cracked peppercorns.

I miss the hippie girls, though.

- Tapwater Jackson

By request, here’s a translation for “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30” by the Moonriders.

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you ever get those days when you're just like "i love bob dylan"?

“As the sad, sad story goes, you're leaving, leaving here for good this time Yeah, right, maybe tomorrow.”

— The Symptoms, Japanther, from Dan Graham’s “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30.”
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