The Love Cook

Ron Padgett

(1942 - )

The Love Cook

Let me cook you some dinner.   

Sit down and take off your shoes   

and socks and in fact the rest   

of your clothes, have a daquiri,   

turn on some music and dance   

around the house, inside and out,   

it’s night and the neighbors   

are sleeping, those dolts, and   

the stars are shining bright,   

and I’ve got the burners lit   

for you, you hungry thing.

I would guess people who have fallen crazy-in-love would like this one. Here's an audio reading by the poet.

About the poet:

Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Ball of Fire, Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.