Two Non-Relatable, Relatable Paragraphs

Warning: I'm going to vaguely relate cooking, methamphetamine, emotions to create a motif.

I hate being put on the back burner. I don't even know what that is. Is this a reference to a stove top? Perhaps the back burner is the lesser of the burners, less heat, less significance. But this idiomatic expression is for that of low priority. Letting something cook on the lesser burners, having it simmer. Simmering food is that of non precedent. As so, let the slow, soft warmth of a tiny flame keep the food edible.

To change the subject, I once saw the aftermath of stove top methamphetamine. This was in the apartment of my classmate's mother. We both saw the process set out on the stove. The various pans and plastic bags laying out without shame. I wonder what cooker she made her science on. Did she use the back burner? Did she have the product simmer? However this substance was cooked, it was gone now. By the women, who in fact, had been put on life's back burner.