[Erik Olson]

Dance in the Kitchen as a Rule of Thumb

Utility and improvising meet
By cooking in the kitchen, tapping feet.
No other room will dancing yield spiced chicken
Than moving measures, dancing in the kitchen.
There if you blow some steam, or lose your top,
Dissolve the stress by tango with a mop.
Outside you'd pirouette or waltz on porch,
But rain obliges or the sun beams scorch!
The living-room has glass to overturn:
This high-priced painting! Watch that! Granddad's urn...
The dinning-room fills up, too fat for dance:
Men stuff their faces—give their mouths a chance;
Devouring food ill suits the dancer's grace,
Thus if you dance, the kitchen is the place!

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