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After three hours on your feet washing

dishes, pulling out every ingredient

for a cookie imaginable, the legs

scream out that this inhumane treatment

is not conducive to a happy holiday.

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A masochistic marachino cherry inventor

made monsters that when quartered take

lots of diligence to get centered in the cookie

dough balls sitting like marching band

members in even rows on the cookie

sheet. 

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After four hours, the arms begin to cramp

and the fingers convulse and freeze

in skewered positions in protest of too

much fine motor skill work: the stirring,

whipping, beating, arranging,

measuring.

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Elves invented measuring spoons

and cups to haunt our dreams

and make living in the kitchen the day

before Thanksgiving a marathon

that produces little crunchy eatables

to delight little munchers and big

munchers too.

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Lady A

11-24-16

1018a

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