The Offcut
In every gingerbread man,
the implied offcut, leftover dough
we knead into itself and roll out
again and cut into to people
the kitchen table, just as the
cookie cutters were cut from
metal by a stronger metal blade,
and somehow, that unyielding
blade got made. You have been
selected to appear here, but one
increment of a millimeter to the
left, and you’d be toast, you’d be
toast before it got toasted, before
it got sliced and baked into bread.
Dough can get another chance at becoming something. Maybe we people can't...
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh while I was also thinking on Saturday how each one of us came to be who we are...a cookie cutter at work? : )
ReplyDeleteNice post.................
ReplyDeleteNice job of keeping it light while still managing to say something of substance. I never thought of this about cookies. Now I think I should have, though I wasn't often the one doing that job.
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