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Poetry: Cooking

by DM Zwack

Created on: September 03, 2010


 Onions


Since I can't cook, I add

Onions to everything.

The stove hisses on

In a crown of flame

As I slice with a dull knife.


The pan sizzles,

Dries out, blackens,

Onions charred to dead worms.

I add a defib, olive oil,

A stop gap, a last ditch.


No good, meal extinct.

I might starve

But for phones and cars

And pizza.

Evolution, you know.

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