Cockroaches
...They were always present.
They ruled the kitchen by night.
You could hear them in the dark
See them when we turned on the light
Making kamikaze runs across the grill,
Hear them sizzle pop an...
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Categories:
cookhouse, food, humor, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Big Jim
...Heaven help
The unfortunate bloke
Who got caught
By a big Jim joke
I heard laughing voices and wondered why
Then surfaced from gonk under open sky
Didn’t take very long to understand it
In t...
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Categories:
cookhouse, humor, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Hooray I Am Back
...A
dash on
excitement
tender passion
warm my leaden mind;
lavish, pungent perfumes
drift thru torn, intimate halls;
chuckling from the cookhouse table,
our constant, unique, only ...
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Categories:
cookhouse, analogy, blessing, fear, inspirational,
Form: Etheree
A Kitchen Without a Woman
...Me and my woman had a fight
I feel like i was knocked out but she only took flight
She left in haste without a hug or a peck
A littered kitchen was my first reality check
The dirty dishes are n...
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Categories:
cookhouse, absence, anger, art, care,
Form: Lyric
Morgan's Secret Recipe
...In a little old town of
Kentucky,
There's a legendary tale of
Morgan's secret recipe.
It was the time of the Great
Depression,
A lighthouse shone out for
the weak and the hungry.
A Chris...
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Categories:
cookhouse, absence
Form: ABC