What Baking Can Do

Make it work, make it easy

Make it clever, crafted into pieces

Make it sweet, crimp the edges

Or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges

Even doubt can be delicious

And it washes off of all the dirty dishes

When it's done, I can smile

It's on someone else's plate for awhile

I'll place it on display

And then I'll slice and serve my worries away

I can fix this, I can twist it into sugar

Butter-covered pieces

Never mind what's underneath it

I have done it before, I'll bake me a door

To help me get through

I learned that from you

Mama, it's amazing what baking can do

Make it up and surprise them

Tell them all my secrets but disguise them

So they dance on the tongues

Of the very people that they're secrets from

Make it soon, make it better

Though better never lasts forever

I'll make it small so it fits

Even this, even now

Even as the walls come tumbling down

Even as I can't stop remembering how

Every door we ever made, we never once walked out

Something I never got the chance to ask her about

So with flour on my hands

I show them all how goddamn happy I am

Sugar, butter, flour

Don't let me down

Let's see the next amazing thing baking does now