Valentine's Day worm (stretching still)

14/2

- Has anyone done a tour of the kokomo song and gone to all the destinations listed in the kokomo song?
- Probably.
- That's a question for the internet!
- Is it really?
- {typing} Down to Florida Key, we'll perfect our chemistry...
- {rummaging jigsaw pieces} When . will I . see my picture in the papers {a little pause...} We'll get there fast and we'll take it slow. It's not nice to talk to someone and laugh about it.

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2376614-has-anyone-visited-all-the-locations-in-the-beach-boys-kokomo-song-and-made-a-video/

receipt

For ye biting of a mad dog or cat:

Take rew and red sage of each a handful, garlick
2 or 3 heads, one ounce of good London Treakle
Tinn or puter scraped the quantity of a walnut
boyle all these in a pottle of muskedine or Ale
but muskedine is better till half be consumed
ye vessell whearin it is boyled must be close
stopped with paste it must be large yt it be 
not prest yt it may be at most but halfe
full for fear of running over for the first
time give six sponfulls in ye morning & as
much at night, before they drink it let them
swallow the quantity of a pea of venis treakle
if they canot swalow it alone mix it with 
ye medisin use ye medisin at any time but cheaf-
ly ( ) 2 or 3 dayes before every change or full
of the more for 2 or 3 months, ever keep them
very warme, & let them sweat in ye bed & be
carefull thay take no could; to every place
yt is bitten or scratched aply ye medisin the herbes
garlick & tin, & keep ye place open, where ye
ingredience will not be tyed on thear wash it wth
ye medesen it selfe: ~ 

Claping the vent of a live hen to ye place is good to
draw out ye vennom:

This somewhat desperate remedy for rabies is from an English Recipe Book 17th-18th Century, Wellcome Library MS7721 (https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19694696).

Ye is a ligature for the, yt shorthand for yet.

London Treakle and venis (Venice) treakle are much the same thing: mithridatium, galene, theriac, a universal panacaea from Roman times. "The concepts developed in the history of Mithridatium form the basis of modern medicines regulation" sayeth the abstract of J P Griffin's article on Venetian treacle. And, as Stephens Coates blogged, London Treakle was concocted during the plague.

I'm not sure if by claping the 18th century author means clasping. The chook cloaca remedy for rabies, or snake bite, brings to mind the edict in Hong Kong not to blow on chicken bottoms, a popular method of checking to see if a live chook was young and good to eat. If it puckered, yes. If slack, no. This also encouraged the inter-species transmission of disease. 

Bready the Bread

- Why are you taking a photo of a piece of bread?

- Daddy's sad because the bakery closed.

- What bakery?

- Where the German rolls came from.

- This is the last slice.

- It's Bready the Bread!

- What will you eat it with, apricot jam?

- Butter and vegemite. Or just plain butter. 

I put Bready the Bread back in the freezer.

- I won't eat it now, I'll get a samosa.

You give me a look.

last toasts

Three and two with raspberry jam
Kass has, I share the bad news.

I'll miss that bread she said.
And the pink meringue, I add.

kitchen bench elevenses

five and four 
butter and vegemite
with reheated tea

buttering brings back
Poppa's toast cooling
by my pillow

I wolfed both
slices standing by
the fruit bowl

ripe banana tainted

drizzly morning toast

slices seven and six
butter and apricot jam
bread dry and squished
who will grease my muffin tin
so I can put my muffins in
sassy banter by the stove
heating milk for coffee
having read the first interview
of Weevils in the Flour

[B]ricklayers don't work in the wet weather said Phyllis
The things we tried. It makes us laugh now. I could tell you some funny stories... said Jack but didn't

lunch souvenir

slice eight and the crust of

the last loaf from Ormond Hot Bread

was toast with butter

with two night old vege lentil soup

the butter smelled fridgey

or it was freezer odour

I could've kept the crust til last

Yes, I see, you're a very good poet.