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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395308" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oatmeal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I eat oatmeal for breakfast.<br>I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it.<br>I eat it alone. <br>I am aware it is not good to eat oatmeal alone.<br>Its consistency is such that is better for your mental health <br> if somebody eats it with you.<br>That is why I often think up an imaginary companion to have <br> breakfast with.<br>Possibly it is even worse to eat oatmeal with an imaginary <br> companion. <br>Nevertheless, yesterday morning, I ate my oatmeal porridge, <br> as he called it with John Keats.<br>Keats said I was absolutely right to invite him: <br>due to its glutinous texture, gluey lumpishness, hint of slime, <br> and unsual willingness to disintigrate, oatmeal should <br> not be eaten alone.<br>He said that in his opinion, however, it is perfectly OK to eat <br> it with an imaginary companion, and that he himself had <br> enjoyed memorable porridges with Edmund Spenser and John <br> Milton.<br>Even if eating oatmeal with an imaginary companion is not as <br> wholesome as Keats claims, still, you can learn something <br> from it.<br>Yesterday morning, for instance, Keats told me about writing the <br> "Ode to a Nightingale."<br>He had a heck of a time finishing it those were his words "Oi 'ad <br> a 'eck of a toime," he said, more or less, speaking through <br> his porridge.<br>He wrote it quickly, on scraps of paper, which he then stuck in his <br> pocket, <br>but when he got home he couldn't figure out the order of the stanzas, <br> and he and a friend spread the papers on a table, and they <br> made some sense of them, but he isn't sure to this day if <br> they got it right. <br>An entire stanza may have slipped into the lining of his jacket <br> through a hole in his pocket.<br>He still wonders about the occasional sense of drift between stanzas, <br> and the way here and there a line will go into the <br> configuration of a Moslem at prayer, then raise itself up <br> and peer about, and then lay \ itself down slightly off the mark, <br> causing the poem to move forward with a reckless, shining wobble.<br>He said someone told him that later in life Wordsworth heard about <br> the scraps of paper on the table, and tried shuffling some <br> stanzas of his own, but only made matters worse.<br>I would not have known any of this but for my reluctance to eat oatmeal <br> alone.<br>When breakfast was over, John recited "To Autumn."<br>He recited it slowly, with much feeling, and he articulated the words <br> lovingly, and his odd accent sounded sweet.<br>He didn't offer the story of writing "To Autumn," I doubt if there <br> is much of one.<br>But he did say the sight of a just-harvested oat field go thim started <br> on it, and two of the lines, "For Summer has o'er-brimmed their <br> clammy cells" and "Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours," <br> came to him while eating oatmeal alone. <br>I can see him drawing a spoon through the stuff, gazing into the glimmering <br> furrows, muttering.<br>Maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.<br>For supper tonight I am going to have a baked potato left over from lunch.<br>I am aware that a leftover baked potato is damp, slippery, and simultaneaously <br> gummy and crumbly, and therefore I'm going to invite Patrick Kavanagh <br> to join me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Galway+Kinnell">Galway Kinnell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395308" data-title="Oatmeal de Galway Kinnell" data-description="I eat oatmeal for breakfast. I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it. I eat it alone. I am aware it is not good to eat oatmeal alone. Its consistency is such that is better for your mental health if somebody eats it with you. That..."></div> </div> </div>
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