Two Minute Noodles

[Delta40]

The noodles simmer
while I suck on the end
of a thread.
The dog barks
and I miss the eye
of the needle
again.

Stacking dishes
washing dishes
drying dishes

The noodles boil
while I'm on my knees
cleaning out the fridge.
The phone rings and
I scrub at stains
which can't be shifted.

Washing clothes
pegging clothes
folding clothes

The noodles burn
as steam rises from the iron
and I inhale a precious memory.
The neighbour slams
his car door
and I think about sex.

[PrinceMyshkin]

God, I love this! Is it your absolutely zaniest? It's as lively as that pot full of boiling water!

[Jerrybaldy]

I am reading delta who is being deltaesque caught between the noodles and having all the sex, all is well with the world and I am happy to have spent another day visiting.
JB

[Delta40]

All is well with the world and I am feeling a little zany. My mother will put an end to all of that when she gets here though....

thank you both for your comments.

[deryk]

Your synesthesia is quite tasty for such an ordinary stimulus. Ain't that life?

[AuntShecky]

Absolutely great!
You may not know it but you're speaking for women everywhere.

[everyadventure]

You just described my evening yesterday, down to the sewing thread, the fridge cleaning, and the ironing!! Frankly, it's EERIE!

[MystyrMystyry]

Noodles? My question regards the fare - do people actually 'eat' them? I suffered them in my desperate student days and vowed that once over I'd never resort to them again (at least the two minute abominations - egg, and various variations have come and gone, come and gone)

This is however an appropriate sacrificial offering - burnt! - to the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the Sky

Kneeling, cleaning the fridge - the narrator is worshipping surely?

I could read things into this on multilevels and multiworms, squirmy and tangy chemical flavours

(I used to make my own sauce because the monosodium gluton-mate made my lips puffy and eyes water - oh the horror, the horror...)

[MorpheusSandman]

This is one of the best I've read from you, Delta. The combination of the the everyday with an understated, absurd undertone, like Jeanne Dielman meets the films of Tsai Ming-liang! The triple epistrophes in stanzas 2 and 4 are a minor stroke of genius, especially as their repeated mundanity both reinforces and breaks up the mundanity of the other events, before finally ending with such a surprise... the ephemeral, fleeting, and special invading the realm of the tangible, routine, and ordinary. A truly great piece.

[Delta40]

Wow I feel so honoured! Who would have thought such dull domestic tasks could actually be interesting - yet when I read other poems (EA springs to mind) I really enjoy them.