A Poem a Day for November - Day 8: My Kitchen Culture

Inspiration for this poem came from someone telling me that he was in the kitchen rocking out to Social Distortion while drinking wine & cooking. I was like, "Hey, I do that all the time too!" So I wrote about it! :-) Hope you like it!

First song: "Memorial Day" - Dropkick Murphys
Second song: "Beat on the Brat" - Ramones
Third song: "Kicking Up a Racket" - Stiff Little Fingers
Fourth song: "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs" - Minutemen

My Kitchen Culture

Come join the fight!

blares out of my computer

as I lay out my good knives

(the ones I got during my

one semester in culinary school)

out on my kitchen counter.

In between random computer-selected songs

* Beep * my microwave sounds

signaling that my chicken has defrosted.

Beat on the brat with a baseball bat!

I sing along as I place my chicken in the sauté pan.

I decide my chicken needs some wine,

and I pour Merlot

from my lion-printed glass into the pan.

I dance across the kitchen

I sit and I don't make a sound while I watch the speakers pound!

and arrive at my cutting board,

slice a few tomatoes

and dance back over to the stove,

slide my tomatoes into the pan

and cover my creation.

I pour myself another glass of wine,

lean against the counter,

bop my head to

Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs!

and wait.

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