Jellybean Jar

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Close your eyes.

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Stick your hand in my candy jar heart.

Rummage your fingers

Through the assortment I present

Until one of them pleases you.

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Pull it out.

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Is it everything you dreamed it’d be?

Whatever the flavor, will you savor me?

Did I offer the right selection

For your palate’s delection?

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Will you reach for another?

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Will you find my hidden stash

Of bitter wounds and coarse opinions

Tangled in saccharine memories

And mangled emotions?

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Will you stay only until you’ve had your fill?

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Will you lick it, just to put it back

For the next person to fuss

With disgust, because some of me

has already been touched?

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I’ll just hide that one too.

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My essence implores your soul

To crave mine and affirm:

My flavors don’t need attenuated

To be deemed palatable.

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-s.g.

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