Retired

I still search
Each magazine
Directions for
Gourmet Cuisine
I tuck away
Each gem
I clip
Savoring
Each page I flip
Dreaming of
How it will taste
That it will not
Increase my waist
But it will not –
Cause though I look
Somehow it seems
I never cook.

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