03-20 Should I Salt The Kale Salad?

we know enough,
of each other  now,
for me to chop the onions,
quickly, with the garlic,
while you add the thyme,
then you, with painter's hands,
ball the elk meat
into hamburgers,
and blue cheese,
they are huge,
a year ago,
I might have watched
you with your hands,
flip the patties,
cigarette between your lips,
while I nervously
drank my wine,
but we know enough of each other now,
that I am in the kitchen,
wine glass next to the sink,
cleaning, getting out the kale salad,
outside, you are fussing over the bacon,
and your reputation,
phone in your hand,
yelling to me about the tickets,
I am listening but not,
wondering why you have no dressings
in the fridge and should I salt the kale salad?
I don't ask.I just do.
You're calling for the buns. I had forgotten to
butter them, so I grab the knife, the red butter dish, the plate,
and I head outside, it's chilly,
we know enough of each other now,
I don't have to stay,
but I do.