Kitchen Miracles - Oct 11 2023

Kitchen Miracles

Oct 11 2023

My cramped kitchen

is a graveyard of gadgets

gathering dust.

My culinary skill

is rudimentary,

interest even less.

So my eyes lit up

at the promise of effortless cooking

and gourmet fare.

But one after another

each miracle device

either failed

or was never used again.

So the bread machine

hot dog slicer

carrot sharpener

all reside

in the back of a cupboard

in perpetual dark,

beside the Instant Pot

and Veg-O-Matic,

the Sous Vide Cooker

still in its packaging.

A testament

to false hope

and disappointment.

But the human ingenuity

that put a man on the moon

and shrank our laptops to phones

will not be deterred;

some shiny new object

is sure to catch my eye

and seduce me with its promise.

Because false hope

is bottomless.

And because the grifters, swindlers

and quick buck artists,

the money mongers

and fast talkers

who hardly stop for breath,

will always prey upon

our need of novelty;

the delusion

that  in the end we'll get back

the time saved.