Cherry

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We would eat ice cream
with sprinkles
on top
and cherries
also on top
although the cherries
dominate
because the sprinkles
just bounce
off the cherries.

I saw
your reflection
in the skin
of the red
ripened
juicy
suck
you
lent
cherry
and you appeared
to blush
but I think
it was
just because
of the skin
of the red
cherry.

So I bit into the fruit
being very careful
not to get any attached sprinkles.
And it was so delicious
to bite into your face
because in the cherry your reflection sprinkles.

And you screamed
like a banshee
in the night wind
and you wanted an apology
And it seemed
like insanity
how could I defend
my actions, I was hungry.

So we broke up
because I bit your face
and for some reason
you took it
personally.
It only required
thirteen or fourteen
stitches
but I swear you can't tell
that you're missing a nostril
and most people only have
one lip
anyway.

Then you sent your lawyer
to my apartment
without even calling
to make sure
I wasn't wearing
only my boxers.
So your
inconsiderate lawyer
serves me the papers
and laughs at my
He-Man underoos.

And I'm left to read
the one sided tale of misery
left by the minion of satan
your compensated ally/companion
And it severely maddened me
You had not even the decency
to deliver it personally
so I used it in a rage
for the parrot to me you gave
for the purpose to catch shit in his cage

Then the SPCA came
a knockin on my door
The mexican cleaning lady
who is also my spanish whore
said the parrot was reading
indecent ramblings
and asked the cleaning lady
if he too could pop her cherry
like I had skillfully skewered yours

And so I sit arrested
I went uncontested
and was sentenced to thirty years
with no toppings for my ice cream
But it is so great behind bars
because at least here I am so far
from your sprinkles colored tears
and your cherry popped by the entire rugby team


July 28, 2004