Michael Benedikt
Kitchen Scenes
On the label of one of the bottles atop your refrigerator in the
kitchen from which you take calcium tablets—the vitamin you use to
settle your nerves a little after all your domestic quarrels—is a
picture of a smiling couple half-naked & blissfully running
hand-in-hand through a field of lush green grass. Therefore,
wouldn’t it be logical to expect to find, on the label of any bottle
atop the ’fridge from which you don’t take calcium, a picture
of an unhealthy-looking couple in a kitchen painted a glaring bright
red, like one of the chambers of hell; wearing body armor &
threatening each other using steak knives for spears and frying pans
for shields.
(1976 & 2006)
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