Leo Dangel

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

After Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish

"How did you like it?" she asked.

"It's all right," he said.

"This is the third time I cooked
it this way. Why can't you
ever say if you like something?"

"Well, if I didn't like it, I
wouldn't eat it," he said.

"You never can say anything
I cook tastes good."

"I don't know why all the time
you think I have to say it's good.
I eat it, don't I?"

"I don't think you have to say
all the time its good, but once
in awhile you could say
you like it."

"It's all right," he said.

Comments

[whos-on-1st.livejournal.com]

This makes me exhausted. I feel like I'm in this fight to pull out the words. Where did you ever find it?

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

From the same book I post most of my poetry from: Good Poems by Garrison Kellor. I was in the mood for something different.

[whos-on-1st.livejournal.com]

It was very different. You meant Keillor, right? And he edited that collection? One of my favorites from him is Leaving Home

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."

and

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

It is Keillor, you're right, and he did, indeed, edit the collection. It's very good. I'd love to check out Leaving Home.

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

Depends on the way you interpret the poem. Either the couple's fighting means their relationship is on the rocks, or that they care about each other enough to argue about something so silly. ^-^

[cowboyjesus.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh. Someone needs to made the adjustment, and it's not the man...because he's already there...he's got nothing to look forward to, at least food-wise...you know, as of forty years ago. Making it the same would be twice as thrilling as making it different. Food is just sustainence sometimes...other things take us along through decades in more interesting ways.

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Your train of thought is interesting.