By Cosette
Date: 16 June 1999

Jar of Hershey’s

i checked your mail for me
and you filled me with messages 
in three's, in five's
sometimes multiples of them!
short but sweet ones
as if to indulge me with Hershey's
stored in my orange-tinted jar.

i didn't need to read them all at once
just like with Kisses
i didn't have to finish one jar
'coz one piece was enough for me to know
that they're luscious indeed - 
a full, quick load of phenylethylamine
just to delight me momentarily
and to give me something 
to look forward to a few hours later
because when I need to be high
I just hit the refresh button
there they flowed...
ample dabs of exhilaration.

but today 
it’s different
whew! I miss you terribly,
incessantly...
even a bag of 30 is not enough
because I take them all 
with no interruption
just to leave me
an empty canister of elation.

although I trust that 
you love me,
I must also realize 
that you got life
of busy moments
devoid of filling me
when I’m attention-deficit.


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