Sad Recipe - a poem

I didn't have potatoes
So I substituted rice.
I didn't have paprika
So I used another spice.
I didn't have tomato sauce
I used tomato paste,
A whole can, not a half can
I don't believe in waste.
A friend gave me this recipe
She said you couldn't beat it,
There must be something wrong with her...
I couldn't even eat it.

-author unknown

A Kitchen Poem For You

If you have to dry the dishes

(such an awful boring chore)

If you have to dry the dishes

('stead of going to the store)

If you have to dry the dishes

and you drop one on the floor

Maybe they won't let you

Dry the dishes anymore.

-Shel Silverstein