I drew you with crayons and put you on the refrigerator with those snarky magnets you bought from that drug store in Mobile, Alabama. I put you up next to a doctors note from ’92 and a faded yellow Post It. Did I mow the lawn? I can’t remember if I mowed the lawn.
I put you up here with a receipt from a store for a thing we’re never taking back. There you are between that magnet poem I wrote when I was drunk and a magnet poem you wrote when you were mad.
But, we don’t put things here to remember, we put them here to forget, like day old spagetti and sour milk. We were healthy intentions, that ended up soggy like these months old cucumbers. Moldy like a new recipe neither of us liked.
We are a ripe cacophony of rotten things. A forgotten filter that never got replaced.
I will leave you here until the paper curls and the color fades. I will look at you every day, but never really see how beautiful you are.
And one day, in a purge, I will wad you up and throw you in the stinky, overfilled recycle bin.
Then I will draw you again, to fill the empty space right there next to the landscapers card we never called.
And tomorrow, I won’t notice you as I open the door, pausing for a bit to wonder where all the smudges on the stainless steel come from.
Is this casserole still good?