Thursday, February 9, 2012

Feb 5 Sunday Poetic Bloomings Old

Old Book 

Pages, smudged and yellow
Binding, loose
Copyright 1927, price two dollars
Electric Refrigerator Recipes and Menus
Specially Prepared for General Electric Refrigerator. 

Author Miss Alice Brady extols
the advantages of the electric refrigerator,
with so many possibilities she compares
it to a magic Aladdin’s lamp, and
not knowing which way to rub it. 

She assures readers “the refrigerator
requires no attention, not even oiling,
and is surprisingly easy to keep clean”
and “offers health and happiness
to homemakers across America.”   

I can picture my Great Aunt Ruth
bustling about the big box
now taking up a corner of her kitchen,
wondering what they will think of next.
We really do take things for granted, don't we?






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