I had something to say about the air here, how the humidity recalls stepping off a plane in lower equatorial Asian cities, how the birdsong outside my window is the exact birdsong I used to hear outside my window in Danang, how these birds may in fact migrate to Danang at the end of November, stack homes atop coconut trees, mango trees, banyan trees. Mi Quang.
What's the first thing you shouldn't eat right after a cleanse?
TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (WHEAT GLUTEN, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, WATER FOR HYDRATION), EGG WHITES, CORN OIL, SODIUM CASEINATE, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF LACTOSE, SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (WHEAT GLUTEN, CORN GLUTEN, SOY PROTEIN), AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SPICES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SODIUM PHOSPHATES (TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, TETRAPYROPHOSPHATE, HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, MONOPHOSPHATE), SALT, DISODIUM INOSINATE, CARAMEL COLOR, CELLULOSE GUM, WHEY POWDER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, DEXTROSE, ONION POWDER, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, VITAMINS AND MINERALS (NIACINAMIDE, IRON [FERROUS SULFATE], THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE [VITAMIN B6], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], VITAMIN B12), SUCCINIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, BREWERS YEAST, TORULA YEAST, SOY LECITHIN.
How to
wash your hair, how to eat corn off the cob, how to wax your mustache, how to tolerate flatulence, how to reach for things in the dark, how to walk sideways without tripping, how to lose your breath, how to fuck a lightbulb, how to weigh nothing, how to burn water, how to hop, how to sit and sit and sit, how to walk outside, how to scramble an egg, how to take apart a roller coaster, how to spell F R Y, how to wonder, how to question the questions of questions, how to evaluate the time belonging to a watch, how to wink, how to fluster, how to wedge yourself between two pieces of furniture, how to avoid chaos, how to fix the unfixable, how to leverage levers, how to water sand, how to rally, how to hop, how to sidle, how to feel quiet, how to say no, how to say yes, how to love.
