Nina Robins
Smolder
Bobby Flay has the perfect
BBQ sauce for your first date.
There's a side of salmon in the smoker,
the perfect hamburger.
I want to take a bath in the sauce,
he gushes.
Your new partner
will love you forever
when you cook her this.
Crab and angus meat,
30 dollar cooking wine.
3 course protein.
How could this not be a perfect
start to love.
Last week he cancelled
his estranged wife's credit card.
She signed the prenup--
she can't back down.
The articles on Google
exclaim the hate,
how he sprinted
to divorce papers.
The war.
But this morning on TV
he tells you how to woo
someone with crab BBQ.
Eats his burger,
the smoked salmon.
Love promotion
oozing through cheese
and juices.
Bring a bottle of pinot noir
he tells you.
You’ll melt together.
As he eats
dinner alone in front of a fake tree,
a camera crew,
a smoldering grill
slowly dying in the background.
Bobby Flay has the perfect
BBQ sauce for your first date.
There's a side of salmon in the smoker,
the perfect hamburger.
I want to take a bath in the sauce,
he gushes.
Your new partner
will love you forever
when you cook her this.
Crab and angus meat,
30 dollar cooking wine.
3 course protein.
How could this not be a perfect
start to love.
Last week he cancelled
his estranged wife's credit card.
She signed the prenup--
she can't back down.
The articles on Google
exclaim the hate,
how he sprinted
to divorce papers.
The war.
But this morning on TV
he tells you how to woo
someone with crab BBQ.
Eats his burger,
the smoked salmon.
Love promotion
oozing through cheese
and juices.
Bring a bottle of pinot noir
he tells you.
You’ll melt together.
As he eats
dinner alone in front of a fake tree,
a camera crew,
a smoldering grill
slowly dying in the background.
Nina Belen Robins is a three time national slam poet and author of the books of poems “A Bed With My Name on It” and Supermarket Diaries”. She lives with her boyfriend and cats and works in the bakery department of a supermarket. Her life goals are normalizing mental illness and living childfree.