Kitchen Throne
written by: Michael Ball
No law says the abuela must teach her craft
though we expect such grace.
Instead each kitchen has a queen
Her hand to their mouths.
Female offspring simply obey.
With luck and looking, they may clean,
and they may crank the meat grinder.
Mother and gran keep their skills close
tucked into their aprons
The kitchen throne is narrow
and has space for but one butt.
Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Satisfaction and feeling like a writer came through blogging and podcasting, mostly political. Born in OK and raised in rural WV, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. He joined the Hyde Park Poets Workshop two years ago, and will never again write a manual or help system. He has moderate success placing poems in print and online.
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