i missed, i hit. a new poem for straz, about the Hunan Bean.

Steve Strassmann (straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
Tue, 17 Jul 90 20:59:41 EDT

i wrote a new poem, about the Hunan Bean. this poem i give to straz-
no rights reserved- as a gift.

Well sure, your ontological mystic self-reappraisal doesn't reassess
the quintissential latrachian expression of the bean mythos. You
separate your neo-post-modern classicism from the pathetically trite
symbolism of Hegelian "reve des legumes", as evinced by your
non-iambic recapitulation of the shell as a metaphor for man's
yearning for lower cholesterol levels and higher spirituality.

But hey, even laxative commercials do that these days - which is why
it all seems so familiar.