Scullery - Clifford T. Ward

You’re my picture by Picasso

Lighting up our scullery

With your pans and pots and hot-plates

You’d brighten up any gallery

I could paint a different picture

Leafy lanes and flower scenes

But amid your cooking mixture

You still have ingredients that make you shine

And when you take your apron off I know you’re mine

You’re my photogenic model

From the glossy magazine

In among your kitchen structure

Soapy water, washing machine

I could take a different picture

Rolling hills and flowing gowns

But amid the foaming texture

Dirty linen isn’t all that starts to shine

In rubber gloves and faded jeans you still look fine

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I could paint a different picture

Leafy lanes and flower scenes

But amid your cooking mixture

You still have ingredients that make you shine

And when you take your apron off I know you’re mine

You’re my picture by Picasso

Lighting up our scullery

With your pans and pots and hot-plates

You’d brighten up any gallery