Slush Puppy

“ You know; you look like someone else ” Was the first thing she said I never did ask, just who, I reminded her of Say romance fornicated in the guttering of a candle And its flame lay in all the rivulets of melted wax We were the twin coupling of paper straws As we sipped the sweet nectar And our tongues lay heavy laden with its sugar So we basked in the reflection Of each others mirror It still troubles me How in one another’s puppetry We were just so much the condensation of syrup Clinging cold to the cardboard cup And even though our fingers Could have shamed the bonfires we built We were nothing more than a mirage On the horizons of love Promise me your soul in forever wants Between the sheets of passion and someone else All wept in falsehoods with the petals of lilies And heavy laden tongue now lay split in iron railings “ You know, you remind me of someone ” It troubles me still How we sank with such poetic and tragic quills Deep to the depths of our own dark inkwells Never having breached onto a naked shore Never having ever really, truly, held each other We were a spasm, a searching for Alluding to a succinct intonation of meaning Written playful, colourful on headlines and posters Fast food prerequisites To fill the emptiness Momentarily in some desperation of sincerity We shared each other’s Slush Puppy