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Also in this section: a Holly Jolly Christmas
Shoppers were stepping to the tune of Burl Ives, “It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas.” In touch with the season They came in droves to buy groceries. I passed a small table near the cosmetics section Where I was pretty much left alone And I noticed a bunch of neat colorful squares That looked like parfait toffee With green and pink stripes and a creamy nougat base. Surely this was some sort of Christmas treat Promoting good will And that sort of thing And I popped one in my mouth Quickly To not appear like the type of person Who would lower myself to sample a handout. I savored the sample on the base of my tongue. It had no taste at first, and I went through the sensation Of what it was not. Clearly, it was nothing that should be in my mouth And it began to foam. I moved at the established Burl Ive’s pace, Not wanting to stand out And held a hand over my mouth To hide the foam and the evidence That I had done a very dumb thing By mistaking bath soap For a candy parfait treat And I had to move through the crowd To the fountain at the back of the store. At last I could open my mouth and wash out the taste But one of the features of the colorful little square of soap Was that it created an endless volumn of bubbles That flowed over the fountain And onto the floor And over to the vegetable section As I rinsed and rinsed my mouth out.
Diego Santiago December 2006
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