The Writer's Almanac - DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2004

Grace Paley said it (about baking, not knitting) better than I could. Read the whole poem here: (scroll down to December 11)

The Writer's Almanac - DECEMBER 6 - 12, 2004: "The Poet's Occasional Alternative"

I was going to write a poem
I made a pie instead it took
about the same amount of time
of course the pie was a final
draft a poem would have had some
distance to go days and weeks and
much crumpled paper