No Talking In The Kitchen, Slave

 Is it going to be a quiet dinner
or a slow cooking meal
with a dessert of taunting
and a glass of verbal abuse

There's frying in the air
and the food is on the floor
before the table is set

Baking beatings
and bullions of bruises

It as once said
the way to their heart
is through their stomach

Yet kitchens so easily become charnel houses
the bones of beauty and love barely held together
wrapped in chains of silverware and soup spoons

A recipe for domestic slavery

November 5, 2024
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 5 of 30 NaNoWriMo2024

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