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Tonight's Poet Corner: Bad Brew

Bad Brew by Belinda Roddie If the drip, drip, drip of my infatuation finds it way into a potion, it shall spoil it; this elixir must be pure, unadulterated, and utterly crisp to the taste. Any sweetness would damage the sustenance. Any cloying will wilt a tongue and turn lips gray. Lovers will kiss each other if they fear their mouths will melt and decay. Still, I'll bottle this pseudo-romance up and pretend it's actually potent. See, it'll sit in a bottle with a crystal stopper: The presentation leads the fool astray. But fools find love in stumbling feet, swooning into briar and brush. And they are blind to reality, like the thorns stuck deep into the desperate prince's eyes.

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