_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ The Nine Sun Tzu Hungers February 13, 2022 in dispersive ground, takeaway will do a curry is ideal, so long as there is plenty family togetherness is important potluck is likewise ideal but should not be easily transported until the meal is complete socialization increases togetherness cooking here is a hearth away from home often friendly, invariably temporary in facile ground, takeaway will still do but trained for easy movement cold pizza, rice balls, and dumplings cooking here is a hearth one has attained often unfriendly, and transience is heightened in contentious ground, whether by takeaway or by logistics train, meals best those things slipped easily into pockets �� pasties, wrapped rice dry meat and hard cheese that lasts in cool in heat, best reduced to cured things cooking here is the illusion of hearth a smokeless fire, a camp soup under guard easily chugged for rolling motion in open ground, trail food is cured meat fruit and fat in mix, marching food riding food, the food of tight-packed logistics always in train, and sometimes the surprises that takeaway has arrived all the same wrapped in that contemporary combination of lies meals, ready, to eat cooking here is in snatches, hearthless but still, toasting bread and fat is home-memory warm and remembering, or foraged on intersecting highways, takeaway may do again and it begins to sound as though takeaway will almost always do but it ��s only sometimes that delight of filling sandwich or meat sliced in layers from the spit in some comfortable roadside barracks or compong prepared pits, both for cooking and for what ��s left cooking here is often comfort, but aware that train is train is train, fast flowing and hearth surrounded is rapidly removed in serious ground, one ��s hearths are stolen quiet, often dark, stock a question of train or of forage, and whatever food one makes by invention or sacrifice, will have to do and still one finds takeaway at times but trusts it ill, and checks the wells cooking here is a map of cascade procured by train, or waylaid one step from hunger in difficult ground, often one finds the best of foods provided one travels small, sweet, and quiet delicious things in wilderness, small train for spice those weird moments of takeaway when monastery ��s beer thinned twice and breaded, make clear one ��s memories goat and deer taken comfortably cooking here is smokeless fire and time resting and moving, resting and moving an endurance dinner, and then another hemmed ground, one ��s dinner is trained whatever can fit the gaps, manage the paths seeking that one place where one might rest controlled of position, and of a rock make hearth and table both, for minutes or moments before finding or breaking contact just stuffing whatever in, and moving cooking here is reaching into pack or pocket miming the memory of warm things where takeaway might arrive from above at any moment an avalanche of stone, or adversary in death ground, food is rolling waves because failing to eat is failing to live a matter of time, of endurance, of seeking breaks the childhood games at quarry, medic yelling hydrate, sealing what they can moving on, and mouth full plugging the hole cooking here is the cauldron food is everyone, a stew in chaos formed ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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