The Butter Knife

The Butter Knife

The versatile butter knife
A somewhat curious utensil
Spreading butter efficiently
Is remarkable unto itself

Dig deep into the creamy peanut butter
Surely more than you’ll need
Dress your toast, your cracker
Your finely carved celery stick

A finely crafted tool for all things condiment
Thinly veiled mustard on your burger masterpiece
I relish the taste of a ballpark frank
So expertly laden with a mix of alien preparations

But, oh you argue with alacrity
Everyone knows these common usages
Barely a reason to waste a page
But let us dissect this miracle further

A screw driver of undaunted proportion
A pry bar to the task of ruination
A press for the pill too large to swallow
A scraper to remove a substance long since spilled

I could go on but you captured my drift
Such a finely tuned apparatus yet so simplistic in nature
I venture to say the one that claimed this invention
Was a genius of the first magnitude.