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sugar

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Taste The Up-Throw

Submitted by perspiciens on June 17, 2008 - 19:57.

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

Cherry
Orange
Lemon
Lime
Blueberry
Grape

Twizzlers
Gobstoppers
Sour Patch Kids
Skittles

Yum

Yuck

Filled with dye
Actually makes me cry
As I expell
The color
From my stomach
Feels like I'm in hell

I throw up
What I shouldn't have eaten
No real food
Just candy
All day
It's not the way
To spend your life
Getting sick
Causing strife

Go to the movies
Eat the chemicals
Half way through
Sprint to the bathroom
Hope you're not going to die

It sucks

Candy's addicting
Tastes so good
Hurts so bad
Uses all the ATP
Your body ever had
To get rid of the crap
Make sure it never
Comes back

Stop eating
You tell yourself
To what end?
You can't mend
The formation of tastebuds
That love
The sugary
Fruity
Goodness

Help

They want you
To taste the rainbow
All I'm tasting is
The up-throw

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The Labor Of Rhubarb

Submitted by perspiciens on June 7, 2008 - 11:51.

Out to the yard
To chop off some
Rhubarb

Yum

Take my Swiss Army
THWACK!
Turn to the compost
THWACK the other side

I head inside
Out of the
Unbearable heat

Rise and
Scrub and
Peel

Get the white
Cutting board
Chop everything
In half thrice

Stand each piece
Up on its end
Chop it like wood

My knife the axe
The 'barb the piece
Of white pine

Every board
Comes off
Almost equal sizes

Looks so good

Stack each one
Into a log cabin
Fire-making style

Reach into the cabinet
SUGAR
SUGAR
SUGAR

...

Can't think of
A metaphor for
The sugar

A few minutes
No more rhubarb
Clean plate

Sugar

Submitted by pamcyr on March 31, 2008 - 09:30.

(Refrain)
Sugar sugar sugar a yeah yeah
Sugar sugar sugar a nah nah
Hyper sweetness, sweet tongue
Sugar sugar sugar la love.

(Verse #1) Sugar in the morning sugar at night
Sugar when the day is bright. Here
And there and everywhere people love
suGAR SUGar SUgar suGar sweetness as
can bee. That’s what sugars all about bout
bout sweet as can bEE WOOOOOOOO

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