Making Tapioca on the Moon
The relationship between the weight of air
and lift of heat
Must be just right.
Even at the lowly high altitudes on earth,
Some things just won’t make:
Boil dried beans on Mt. Baldy
And they will still be little rocks, even
After five days of boiling.
Boiled oatmeal, cocoa, and peanut butter cookies
Will never be cookies in Santa Fe,
Not ever.
They will be chocolate oat sludge.
When is boiling hot not boiling hot?
When it is a mile high, or two miles, or 256,000 miles.
It takes pressure to heat, pressure to cook, pressure to
create something good.
Funny, how all the right ingredients
in the right
proportions
in the right
order
at the right
time
Won’t matter a bit
If the pressure isn’t there.
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8/11/09
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