Monotony

We came across this poem in an anthology, and think the pauses say more than words ever could.

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

"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 it's good, but once
in awhile you could say
you like it."

"It's all right," he said.

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Leo Dangel's focus: rural American life. For more of his poems, look here.