Sweetness by Jeff Santosuosso

You’ve been melting candy canes on the paper again spiraling sugar lines unwinding across the molten letters The corners of the pages drip verse The corners of my mouth drip the same I lick away at the lustrous language You keep melting and my tongue reddens as fast as my pupils dilate and my heart beats Drip on, my friend Liquefy confection all through the paper Peppermint stick those pages like my fingers I can’t touch anything because I’m thick with the sweetness I can barely remove by slowly pulling them through my pursed red lips

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