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Who Cooks For You

“Who cooks for you?” asked the Bard. Who prepares your meal? Do you sup alone? Any condiments? Salt perhaps? Spices? What are you hungry for? What appeals to your taste? When you rise in the morning, What do you desire? Is it even food? Or do you look to satisfy something else? For what do you hunger? But aside from all that Who cooks for you? Whatever it is you desire, wherever you may roam, Who paved the way? Who set the table? Who made it possible for you to breathe, to laugh, to cry, to despair. to hope, to love, to live, to die…? Do you even give a hoot? Who preparest a table for thee in the presence of thine enemies? So the Barred h-owls his haunting cry, “Who cooks for you?”

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Date: 7/3/2016 1:01:00 AM
Mark, enjoyed reading your poem, thank you for sharing your thoughts through words. *SKAT*
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Date: 5/31/2016 8:12:00 AM
If we are honest, we realize there are some whose urges (hunger) are in fact twisted (wicked). For what do they hunger? This poem is also for serial killers, rapist and others nere-do-wells whose hunger results in pain and suffering to others. I am thankful that most people truly want to do the "right thing". The risk and trouble is when the right thing becomes clouded with an "anything goes" mindset. Some meals should never be served and some cooks should never be allowed in the kitchen.
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Date: 5/30/2016 8:44:00 PM
God's creatures are "wise" enough to ask the English speaking world the one question that reveals a great deal about and on behalf of the few who contemplate such things.
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Date: 5/30/2016 7:55:00 PM
I like your questions which leads to a deeper meaning...who is the creator of your life
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