Potato Salad - Morning Ritual

20220318 #breakfastdiary 383, 7°C/cloudy, 10min/exercise Mash boiled potatoes and mix in a good amount of salt, milk, and pepper, stirring well. Cut in boiled eggs, then scoop onto the plate with an ice cream scoop. Finish with parsley and plenty of pepper — #potatosalad Unlike prose, poetry doesn't state things bluntly — it leaves room for interpretation. Some people take advantage of this, tacking lofty concepts onto every single word of a poem until the poem itself is turned into a clown. Patriot-poets like Manhae or Yuksa often fall victim to this. Hwang Hyun-san, There Is So Much I Don't Know, March 18, 2016. Life, too, needs room and blank space — sometimes it's better not to insist on knowing, and simply stay quiet.