I learned how to cut up a raw chicken 27 years ago by watching Martha Stewart on TV.<\/p>\n
I spread waxed paper on the table and grabbed a kitchen knife,
\nThe wrong kind, of course.
\nHow was I to know the difference between a butcher knife, a paring knife, a steak knife, or any other kind of knife?<\/p>\n
I watched Martha gracefully slice through the chicken,
\nCutting easily through the bones
\nWithout even getting any on her blouse.<\/p>\n
I was a mess,
\nSawing through the fowl thing like an untrained laborer cutting a log with a dull saw,
\nChicken blood and muck spread all over me.<\/p>\n
After the show was over and Martha declared her chicken a “good thing,”
\nMy chicken didn’t look like her chicken.
\nMy coffee table didn’t look like her kitchen counter.
\nAnd I didn’t look like Martha.<\/p>\n
I cried.<\/p>\n
Then I cooked the chicken and cleaned up my mess.
\nI put on clean clothes and makeup and did my hair.<\/p>\n
When my husband came home I served him the chicken,
\nAnd he loved it.<\/p>\n
I smiled.
\nI felt like Martha Stewart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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