Setting the table (first edit )

[billy]

i like it a lot mainly because it holds the fun of having a new gadget. like a first tv. would there be any advantage in breaking the longer lines, i think you could also make it a little less wordy.
The microwave oven came to our house for Christmas
in the year of the Big Bang.
(used in so there wouldn't be two the's on top of each other) just suggestions.

Setting the table

The microwave oven came to our house for Christmas the same year as the Big Bang.
And we reheated gravy like it was nobody's business whether we said Grace first, or not.
We watched it bubbling over.
And we bubbled over ourselves, a little,
Toasting to a pastel future,
Toasting to now, finally arrived and with wine.

We had a three year affair with three minute popcorn, this line makes me remember lots of similar thing. (home made ice lolly containers etc)
And whatever our lot was,
The plot was for the house to smell of theatre,
And that was good enough for us.

My mother served trifle in a champagne glass,
That any sweet-tooth would bite through to taste.
But her coffee was total shit;
A shame because some of us looked forward to it,
More than the gravy even.

She always kept the gravy hot,
But sometimes there was more to the meat than we could gloss over,
With chewed fat and drippings.

This year we made hot dogs in the microwave,
So the place doesn't smell of the same home-cooked play as last year.
It's so much easier for things to get harder now.
We're more prepared for big bangs,
When you press the wrong button,
Or keep something in too long.