I really don't want to, you know. Because, as Tuco said, "My belly's full!" And that fact should carry the day.
But I have leftovers. How to deal with them, without scalding my soul?
Initial reaction, from my neighbor, Vilma:
The angel hair pasta is the Feminine We. Obviously. Fragile, delicate, broken irretrievably when slashed by the Metal Fork: (He).
The red sauce is obviously Male, aswimming in unreconstructed Meat. They never have an address, do they? Just raw meat, all over your petite asses without asking By Your Leave.
Because that's what it's about: the red manmeat stuff smothers the delicate white thin stuff, Patriarchal, Inhuman, Brutal.
Sisters, protect My Hump!
Then, of course, it slithers into your little pasta bowels, that red meat, that sauce. Without any permission (Time Magazine said it was okay in that discraceful 1974 We Love Italian! cover story. Luce holdovers. Cretins!)
So that red, red sauce (He!) drips between her angel hair, she helpless, disgraced. And then he twirls his "fork". Which we know is merely a construct for a four pronged penis. Mixes his disgusting meat, slathered with manmeatjuice, all over the delicate pasta (She!).
I vomit. Mandela!
Then sucks the She pasta into his never-satiated Maw, licking his fascist lips as he slurrups the final vestiges of the poor angel hair from what is obviously her exposed, bloodied, vagina.
And don't we own Red, sisters? We bleed it every month. And they are so F***king White Bread! F*** Them!
We shall reinvent the Spaghetti. With our African-American sisters. Pasta is Red. Meat (that disgusting, smirking Meat) is White. Unlike their Souls. Which are Black! And, um, only the authentic sisters can be Black!
Anyway, I passed about three pounds of excrement after that. Felt pretty good, too. Loves me some spaghetti. And sorry, Vilma. We'll get it together one of these days. Promise.
Lord, I just don't know what to make of you sometimes.
Posted by: Erica at June 14, 2007 11:06 PMWhat's Vilma smoking? I don't think I could ever derive that much meaning from pasta. Howsomeever, I do like lasagna. But just as food.
Posted by: Peggy U at June 15, 2007 1:17 AMThe secret is to combine chopped polska kielbasa with the ground beef. Magnifico.
Posted by: Mike Vick at June 15, 2007 4:47 AMI have no idea what you just said. But, damn, I felt dirty reading it.
Posted by: Freddie at June 15, 2007 3:12 PMSorry. Somehow I found myself reading proofs of Feminist Studies PhD dissertations.
It's a madhouse! A madhouse!
Posted by: Velociman at June 15, 2007 3:43 PMWho's gonna get it together? You and Vilma? or Men? ...I'm so confused.
Posted by: Jean at June 15, 2007 6:58 PMFry it - leftover fried spaghetti rocks.
Other than that, I'm not trying to figure out the rest of it...way too tired this morning and not enough coffee and I just wrote a feminist critical perspective of four novels so I should try and read it more carefully. Maybe later.
Posted by: Chickie at June 16, 2007 9:53 AMPeggy U took my comment. I want what Vilma is smoking. Lots of it.
I need it because I've been asked to guest blog on Feministe in August. I could have written sooner, but I'm needing this time to figure out what to write without inciting the ire of the rad fems.
Could pork be the 'other' white meat? Or is that too suggestive?
Posted by: Rosie at June 18, 2007 9:42 AMRosie: Why would one not want to incite the rad fems? Sounds very entertaining to me ... like throwing rocks at a hornet nest ...
Posted by: PeggyU at June 18, 2007 9:12 PM