All Comments on 'You Said You Hated Cooking'

This is some of the best writing I have seen here.

I ordinararily avoid poems that look like blocks, but this catches you in the first sentence:

"You said you hated cooking, but you served

several meals of pain to me most days;"

Summs up in the same style

"I couldn’t taste that heaped dollop of silence

from the favorite bowl I lost when I moved out."

Along the way - look at this sentence - includes everything

good about writing, I was thrown a little by the semi-colons at first, a valuble lesson in punctuation.

"Some went into the frozen darkness,

and I’d never think of them again: stuffed

far in the back, sealed bags of spicy disdain

so often set before me; disapproval pie;

sweetened condemnation; small casseroles

of accusation, seasoned with suspicion;

resentment rolls, collected through the years."

There is so much here, consistent, original,

"small casseroles

of accusation, seasoned with suspicion;"

I feel you are giving us lessons with this.

I also see a sustainment of complex mood with a touch of humour.

Quite nice, from someone who refered to himself as "dumb", I quote:

"but dumb as I am, I need an overall unity of tone."

Pardon my pun, so well done.

As good as one would find in the New Yorker, only more enjoyable.

witty clever and very funny <grinin'>

boy you said a mouth full <laughin'>

but dont bite the hand that feeds you (~_~)

wonderful serving of a poetic situation

a buffet of delight in this poem~

hehehe thanks~

The title caught my eye, and the rest was wonderful. Very nice work.

I'm going to call them paragraphs instead of verses. The

1st one would make a great start to a novel. I thought

towards the middle and end the fire was gone and you mellowed a little. Like someone before posted, I don't

read this type of poem often, but that 1st paragraph was

as good as it gets.

I love this site. Sometimes you trip and fall into a gem.

This is a gem. Thank you so very much for writing it.