Christmas Presents I: The Pink Kitchen Aid Mixer

The essential non-essential kitchen item,
the one you wanted for years, each year
telling yourself it’s not needed, it’s not,
you can cream butter and sugar by hand,
whip egg whites with the old hand mixer
that promises to detonate one day when
the beaters finally wobble into oblivion,
you really want the pink one, the one
that will match the trim on the kitchen
counter you finally got after ten years
of hating the stained yellow countertop
you swore you would replace as soon as
you bought the house 15 years ago.
Now you have the essential non-essential
kitchen item, in pink, on your counter top
with the pink trim and you’ve made waffles
and chocolate sugar cookies and chocolate
cookies and wonder how did you survive
without it for all these years.