House Warming for New Grill

Housewarming for a New Grill

Ever since Lucy came down from the trees and stood straight and erected

We have on the difference between animals and humans on the issue of fire reflected

Animals see fire and in fear

Quickly flee when it appears

Humans have spent thousands of years trying to learn

How to keep a fire going or make pieces of wood burn

Tired of freezing and eating raw roots and uncooked meat

A long ago ancestor saw wood burning from a lightning strike and felt its heat

Daringly put a piece of meat on a stick over the fire for a tasty treat

The beginning of a path to all manner of tasty meals to greet

For our cooking always looking for the perfect tools

Wood, charcoal, coal, oil, and natural gas as over nature we rule

Ovens, cookers, spits, stoves, our minds would not quit

Even hot rocks covered with leaves in a luau pit

But when it came to steaks the choice was easy, it had to be not a pan but a grill

That’s why we are gathered today to celebrate this gift from the opening of the owner’s till

Now we are blessed with a massive stainless steel grill

Enabling anyone to be become king of barbecue hill

How better a way to christen our grill and break it in

Than a steak pot luck where with our neighbors our taste buds and bellies win.

Even though perhaps in the future a sad day

For our resident chef Zack is moving away.

© June 8, 2019