Quips & Anecdotes - Panini Press Poem


If you've seen the movie Before Sunrise, you'll know exactly how excited Duc and I must've been when we saw a poet at the farmers' market in San Francisco. If not, I hope you still think he's cool. The poet sat there with a typewriter. If you gave him a topic, he'd write a poem about it and however good you felt the poem was was how much you would pay/tip for the poem. Duc and I chose to make a panini press the central topic; there's a story behind the panini press from the beginning of our relationship (ask me about it if you're curious!). I wanted to post on my love of language mixed with the topic of tastiness. Here is that palatable piece of properly (professionally?) panhandled poetry:

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