Sorry if you missed Mark Doty's reading at SF Zen Center last evening. If you were there you recognize the rhetorical question. Otherwise read his FIRE TO FIRE, New and Selected Poems.
By the way, cooking is inquiry (of taste) and satisfaction (of hunger). Not much is rhetorical about food, I’d say.
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your plate
what they put on it, did you think
it could turn out to be a symbol,
a projection, a prophecy?
Spaghetti, no way
Potatoes, some time
A simple salad and a shook up dressing?
who could ever tell
it might all add up
or fall apart
big They people
in charge of everything
we ate