Home-made - object writing exercise 10 mins Dec 28
admin December 27th, 2007
My digits and thumb grip the cool glass container in a vice, but still the lid won’t come off. Usually this is something you find with ’shop-bought’ jam, not home-made. I persist and the top frees itself with a whirl. Sitting on the surface is a sealing layer of wax; milky and solid. This is why the lid did not want to come off; some of the wax has leaked down into the helter skelter of the thread on the jar. So now the toast is getting a little cold, I had buttered the bread already; the knife had guillotined the head off several pieces of butter. The oblong now looking a little less of its former self. I always wonder - is the head able to speak after it has been cut off in a guillotine? Is there consciousness? Butter has no consciousness, I believe. I felt no queasiness watching those waves curl up at the end of the knife before they became pools of acid on the toast, sinking down , dissolving, making bread molecules bubble beyond the vision.
The jam as I have been taught, MUST be retrieved from the jar with a spoon which is NOT allowed to come into contact with the bread or croissant or whatever it is to be spread on. This is to avoid ‘infecting’ the preserve as home-made jam is not affected with the same chemical barrage as manufactured jam, which is probably why it tastes sweeter, homelier. The jam now is being spread over the once crunchy terrain, some falling in the holes burned by the butter, but I am already savouring the delicious mix of melted butter and sweet jam. It’s a sacred combination, though truth be told I actually prefer ’shop-bought’ jam! Strange, I guess it’s always consistent, always super-sweet and sickly. I masticate over the crusts and crumbs, molars of death slicing and dicing, dissecting , this is the final coroners report for this meal.
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