Organizations and Markets

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Burrito

11 December 2008 at 11:43 am Peter G. Klein 1 comment

| Peter Klein |

I
On twenty pasty faces,
The only thing in common
Was burrito breath.

II
I had three dollars,
Like a street person
Who panhandles three hours per burrito.

V
I can’t decide between them.
The pleasure of obsession,
Or the pleasure of abandon.
The burrito in the mouth
Or the throat.

VIII
I think clever phrases
And bipartisan, utopian ideas;
But I think, somehow,
That the burrito is more useful
than what I think.

Selected stanzas from Klipschutz’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Burrito,” a parody of the famous Wallace Stevens poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Why am I blogging this? Because several years ago my wife and I picked up a print of the Klipschutz poem at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. It spent years in a closet, rolled in a tube, but we finally got it mounted and framed, and I hung it in the dining room yesterday. Who says we aren’t haute culture here at O&M?

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