"linguine" poems
Giovanni the Pizza Guy (Pronounce "a" as "uh")
Giovanni,you make a de savory tomato
and de thicka white creamy alfredo
you are a de pizza guy, amor'e
Si', I make a de homemade paste
she's a richer for you taste
and that's a part of my story.
I make a de pizza pie
I make a it to please
you wanna de pepperoni
or you wanna de plain cheese ?
I am a you waiter I take a you order
when you food-she a comes
she make a you mouth water
I make a de perfect pizza
in me you should a trust
you wanna de thicka or de thinna crispy crust?
I can make a spagetti or make a zucchini
butta for you , I make a linguine
I can make a de sauce red
I can make a it white
after you taste-you wanna more bite
I make a de spagetti -she's a made a with love
I cook a real slow you order ahead ;
or you take a to go.
I putta de stuff on de top
I give a you wine or a some pop
Uno momento, will you please
I must a cut a de cheese
I am a you pizza guy to make a you pizza pie
Why must a you stay a at home
when a you can a dine a in a Rome ?
I save a you a table
I tell a you a fable
I fill a you pants
I make a you dance
I make a de sauce thick
I make a de sauce thin
I make a you laugh
I make a you grin !
Si', Please a come a back ; see a Giovanni again!
CHOW FOR NOW, BELLISIMA !
Nov 26, 2010
Nov 26, 2010 at 2:45 PM UTC
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
I have to admit my weakness,
my inability to control my carnal urges.
I have reached again into the depths
of my cupboard where I have vowed
to never enter with a hungry stomach.
And so the temptation of linguine
and innocent tiny shells
crowded into my head
instead of heavenly angel hair.
I have faith that only you
can absolve me of my sins
and twenty pounds, more or less,
a 10% tithe to my Semolina God.
Then there is the matter of the cheese.
Forgive me, please.
Sep 26, 2009
Sep 26, 2009 at 4:39 AM UTC
omar loved his guitar.
he took it to pubs, clubs and parks.
he took it on trains, buses, to bathrooms.
he went to bed with it.
omar loved his guitar so much
that he cut a hole in it
so they could make love.
it hurt like hell, but
it was worth it.
three months later, omar
and his guitar, who was called
Vera,
had made love two-hundred and
thirty six times, and a
viscous mess lingered
inside her.
one day the mess
became sentient and it
slid itself out of
Vera's whole and onto
the carpet.
omar came home that day to find it
soaking up the linguine in his pantry.
within days it had doubled in size.
within weeks it had grown soft, wet arms
and legs
and fingernails.
after three weeks its form was fully recognisable:
a guitar, with arms, legs and a head, and
a thin sheet of human skin, stretched over
it.
on it's forehead were the six tuning pegs.
and strings were stretched from its forehead
to its crotch.
one time one of the strings snapped and omar
had to replace it with
one of Vera's.
it had a mouth.
when it was old enough
omar made love to it too.
Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 11:02 PM UTC
Big And What Else Is In America
I’ve seen big people in little places
all over the U.S. I have seen people
break little laws and end up in
the headlines. I’ve watched old folks
do young things. Fat do thin stuff.
You have never asked me why
I see such things. You have sat
in your soft chair thinking it was hard.
Leaders do little things and end up
on the TV. Cokes look like Pepsis
to no one. Spaghetti is really linguine.
Bosses beg to want anyone to know
they do everything. Words become
less syllabic the more you say them.
I have seen yellow look awful
light brownish. I saw a pineapple
that seemed like a stone. The President
became a wanton chief. Casual oinks
became loud moos. One time, not long
ago, I viewed my wife as a lady who
wanted all my money, had it, and did
nothing except wait and wait until
all my relatives died, and then, spent
it on purses at a mall nearby the estate.
Daniel Gallik
[email protected]
www.dangallik.com
Jul 10, 2015
Jul 10, 2015 at 9:26 PM UTC
Everyone looks pretty when I take off my glasses.
I blink, rub twin bruises from my nose, eyes
narrowed like the tip of a Dali paintbrush: melting liquid
color on a pregnant canvas. I let pigment run
into faces: heads lumpier than hand-rolled *****
of clay, black mouths rippling like asphalt
puddles, bodies quivering like overcooked
linguine: blurred, as if viewing them without
prescription has stripped and censored
their naked bodies. Sightless, I see
with my ears: watch the tone of their voices, taste
the words that unfurl from the breath
on their tongues. I see with my skin, feel
the atmospheres that slow-boil under their own.
I see from the depth of my stomach: absorb
the energies that hit my belly-button: third eye.
And when I've seen, I replace my glasses
blink.
Sight eclipses my vision: stubborn
lines and harsh contrasts framed
in unforgiving black boxes. I think maybe
I'd rather brave the world blind –
nose bare, eyes squinted, and belly grumbling
– if only so I could see with clarity.
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 4:37 PM UTC
*i mean, that **** is weirder than the scots deep-frying chocolate bars (mars, mianly, even though i think snikers would taste better), or slices of pizza; yeah, and they say: euro-trash... how much more ****** can you get?! i don't even want to know what the irish culinary fetish is; it's enough knowing that the thai like deep-frying locust.*
i never understood it, this english "thing",
there is probably no nation in the world that has
a compulsion to mix two carbohydrate heavyweights...
heavyweights?
pasta... bread... rice...
crisps...
so i was reading the yesterday's newspaper
and this recipe was included in the magazine:
pasta with beans and pesto...
sounds good enough...
but i read into the recipe...
400 grams of linguine,
300 grams green beans,
200 millitres basil pesto
freshly grated parmesan...
and then it hit me: 1 large potato cut into
1 centimetre cubes...
but now i'd be asking americans to: not bother
getting a passport...
in school i watched the english lodge crisps
into sandwitches...
this is the most oddball of all current nations...
who the **** combines two heavyweight carbohydrates?
they even have this standard of lodging chips
into buns...
like my father once noticed on the building
site, this black guy, stuffing a banana peanut-butter
and some bacon into a sandwitch...
fair enough if you lodge a plantain into
the mix... but a banana?
about as weird as the english
using crisps + bread... or pasta + potato.
having a glimpse at this pratice,
seems more fascinating, than, say, spotting a yeti.
May 21, 2017
May 21, 2017 at 7:43 AM UTC
I like pasta, you like pasta,
Twirl it, swirl it, let’s have a blast-a!
Spaghetti’s long, it dances on my plate,
With a tasty sauce, it’s simply great!
Fettuccine’s wide, so creamy and smooth,
With every bite, it makes me groove.
Penne’s like tubes, ready to fill,
With cheese and sauce, it gives a thrill!
Macaroni’s small, but oh so fun,
In a cheesy bath, it’s number one!
Tortellini’s pockets, stuffed with delight,
A tasty surprise in every bite!
Linguine’s flat, like a noodle parade,
With clams and garlic, it’s perfectly made.
So here’s to pasta, in every way,
Let’s eat together, hip-hip-hooray! 🍝🎉
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC
Galileo Newton Einstein
all couldn't sing for **** ok
maybe Newton would
have a little too much
Sherry & break into a ditty
& jig; old Galileo inviting
the girl who brought the
milk upstairs to peer through
his long tube...she'd say Mr.
Galileo is so big & giggle
to the girl bringing the eggs
Medusa met Robert Johnson
at the dark crossroads where
Jesus hangs like a scarecrow,
like he ever did that on a muggy
day in old Palestine;
every quantum girl is a million
miracles rolled into one unseen
freckled face; a single quantum
girl is every other & every other
is that one mirroring herself in
the polished gem of science; her
biology something like linguine
primavera;
oh for the day ur science is forgotten
& remembered long after ur poetry is
committed to memory & computers
have become a myth
Mar 14, 2018
Mar 14, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
as a snowball rolling down
the mountain. Every man had
a hand in its making. Every man
packed more on till it grew large
as a boulder. It barely moves from
its weight. Once this snowball was a little
meatball on my plate. And every man
the tomato sauce till I was lost in
indigestion. I was tossed as the linguine
in a polka-dot bikini. I stuffed my face into
every man's line as spaghetti wrapped
around a fork, so entwined and cut short.
Sep 8, 2022
Sep 8, 2022 at 6:35 AM UTC