Hunten

Fat cosin Borj take me hunten
I do not like
He just fill his fat face with Buttermilk Borvel
And drink potaeto rum
He enchant poor deer with his dancen
Then kill them with hammer
I cry

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[TLK]

I have Ukrainian ancestry, and I believe it that vodka used to be made with potatoes. Potato rum sounds even worse.

I am not sure about Buttermilk Borvel -- can you clarify?


The plainness of this poem is just brilliant. I am going to take it and you at face value because this way of life, and manner of communication, is so direct and beautiful. In so few words you have taken me to a place that harkens back at some racial memory hidden deep inside me. The smooth rhythms of a rural life ruled by harvesting and death.

The last two lines would make almost any poem in the whole world better.

[Bjarte Knutson]

Thank you again!

Buttermilk Borvel is soured buttermilk made into a borvel shape and is a traditional food. I have never liked it though. It is very fattenen.

[TLK]

The word 'borvel' makes me think of Bovril, which is a 'salty meat extract' that you can dilute into a drink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19glRAmibSU

There we go, cultural enlightenment for both of us. ;)

[Bjarte Knutson]

A meat drink sounds quite good...but perhaps a bit as not healthy as Borvel, so only to be drunken sparingly