The piece, entitled Hunger Hurts, was written when Jack Monroe was at her wits' end: no money, the food cupboard bare, the housing benefit cheque turning up, inexplicably, £100 short.
If we rejected every creative work that is in some way "problematic", the canonical cupboard would be bare.
They all have the feel of artworks rediscovered after years at the back of a cupboard.
We were obliged to let them in and hid in our rooms, considering whether or not to make an interjection, while they rummaged grumpily in our meter and boiler cupboard.
Today is Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher's hour in the sun – as shire England chooses new councils, they clamber out of their scholarly cupboard and hold broadcasters' hands, explaining to the nation what to make of a muddling mosaic of local votes, staged in a different places each year.
"Look how funny we all look in our matching outfits," you'd enthuse, only to have to take turns changing in the "dressing room", which is really the gig venue's cleaning cupboard.
(Who can forget the time that David Beckham crowbarred in a mention of his sponsors into the revelation that he suffered OCD? "I'll put my Pepsi cans in the fridge and if there's one too many then I'll put it in another cupboard somewhere," he told an interviewer).
Instead, due to the fact that he had apparently used a laptop connected to the physical network, hidden in a wiring cupboard in the university, the charges were of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
The Marwood in The Lanes, for example, is a wonderful hotchpotch of reclaimed bits and pieces with old cupboard doors as table tops and even Apple Mac hard drive towers as stools.
Meanwhile, heavy breathing from a cupboard in the cowshed indicates that Rob, the dairy manager, and Helen are also enjoying a do-not-disturb moment in there.
Putting up with mice in the cupboard and slugs in the bathroom is just part of university life for many students.
