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Tonight's Poet Corner: Kissing In The Candy Shop

Kissing In The Candy Shop by Belinda Roddie The rain has lessened somewhat, though the cold is still lingering, handsome fingers brushing against the denim of my jacket, your fingers, painted, reaching for a plastic bag so you can dump your fill of treats into the price-managed reservoir. We've brought coupons, minor attempts to save on gummy bears and M&Ms, peanut butter balls and jelly beans, building blocks of sugar to stain our teeth and please our tongues with. You humor me, while I desperately try to shove a quarter into a machine so it can tell me if I am "mild" or "spicy" in nature. I bite into a s'more bar and caress your cheek with graham cracker residue on my lips. To say you taste sweet is both an exaggeration and a cliché. In the candy shop, everything is saccharine and sticky, and your kisses are the comfortable kicks that offer me sustenance compared to my artificial high.

Today's OneWord: Interested

I am not interested in my own materialistic gain. I try to live as minimalistically as possible, where there is running water but no blaring television set, where there is a lamp to read beside but no glaring laptop screen with the harsh green wifi signal. I am not a wanderer, nor a woodsman. But I am a dreamer in a cottage whose imagination barely transcends the night stars.