The Joy of Cooking: Personal Reflection

They say serial killers always torture animals when they're young. I wonder if they write about cooking their sister's tongue and eating their brother's heart, too. This poem is just simply the wierdest thing I have ever read. After getting through the gruesome details, I think I have discovered something close to the meaning of the poem. Thankfully, it seems to be metaphorical. The speaker describes her brother's heart as "barely feeding two" when it should serve six. This seems to symbolize her brother as being a very cold-hearted individual who probably did not love the speaker as he should have. However, I'm confused on what her sister's tongue could symbolize. This poem, overall, confused me on its exact meaning as well as ranked number one on the wierdest things I've ever read list. I would think she'd be able to come up with something else to get her point across that didn't involve cooking her siblings' organs, but apparently we can't always get what we want.