Recipe creates one beasy mist, which may be shared separately or encountered alone in a snifter. Back door must be open and screen dirty, with dirty-screen smell, and yard must be gray. Enjoy!
In windowless room
open one window
using serrated knife
or saw
Place hand through
one window
so hand is outside
One palmful of mist
is now
on inside of hand
add bees
or beast
or bezoar
Muddle in the
inside of
puddled balloon.
Today’s prompt at NaPoWriMo.net is right up my alley: a poem inspired by a recipe. My poem was further inspired by the recently viral story of what happened when scientist Janelle Shane trained something called a neural network to come up with some names for new recipes. Some of its attempts sound like they could be in my 1961 Betty Crocker cookbook. I was especially taken with “beasy mist.”
Marilyn Rauch Cavicchia 
Do you have a link to the original research? It sounds really interesting (and funny, of course…) 🙂
Yes, it’s http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/140508739392/the-neural-network-has-weird-ideas-about-what. I edited so that the scientist’s name now links to her Tumblr. 🙂 While there, you can read one of the actual recipes it came up with, which is … wow.
Thanks!
I feel tempted to persuade someone to try out one of the recipes as a science project. 😉
I want to have a party where everyone has to make and bring one of these new dishes. 🙂