We will have food specials on Saturday till 8pm and again on Sunday. Saturday Farewell Transmission is here to help us open the Grove, come listen to some excellent garage psych and roll from 8-11!
LACQUER
Destiny rolls over me. Sometimes like an egg. Sometimes
with its paws, slamming me into the slope. I shout.
I take my stand. I pledge all my juices. I shouldn’t
do this. Destiny can snuff me out. I feel it now.
If destiny doesn’t blow on our souls, we freeze
instantly. I spent days and days afraid
the sun wouldn’t rise. That this was my last day.
I felt light sliding from my hands, and if I didn’t
have enough quarters in my pocket, and Metka’s voice
were not sweet enough and kind and solid and
real, my soul would escape from my body, as one day
it will. With death you have to be kind.
Home is where we’re from. Everything in a moist dumpling.
We live only for a flash. Until the lacquer dries.
–Tomaž Šalamun
Trans. Christopher Merrill and Tomaž Šalamun
Food Specials (available Saturday noon to 8pm, and again on Sunday at noon, or till gone):
Takoyaki: Little Octopus wheat dumplings – 4 for 8$, 8 for 12$
Japanese Potato Salad – small/large 5/8$