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Sweet!

A little sweet in the mouth goes a long way. Watch babies eat ice cream for the very first time. Their expression is sublime;  and get addicted immediately: mouths open, hands outstretched, and if they are refused this marvelous, new gustatory sensation you’d be hearing sirens for a long time.

Sugar, nectar, honey—their sweetness reminds us of  love and as we taste love we are reassured that we are loved.

It had been a long day. I could barely keep my eyes open for my piano student, and told her so. “Would you like a candy?” She asked. “Yes,” I perked up. She handed it to me, a piece of chocolate that I had given her a couple of weeks before.

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3 thoughts on “Sweet!”

  1. Sweet tea, sweet tea, sweet tea!

    Gertrude Stein’s pun, and she was definitely right. One kind of sweetness calls to another.

  2. This is the Gertrude Stein poem I am misquoting: “Susie Asado.” I think it’s about the ecstasy of making sounds: “a told tray sure,” a told treasure.

    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
    Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
    A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
    When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
    This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly. These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
    Incy is short for incubus.
    A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble, the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and render clean, render clean must.
    Drink pups.
    Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. It shows a nail.
    What is a nail. A nail is unison.
    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.

  3. Makes me want TEA and a square of chocolate. I’d love to hear a bit of piano too, gentle on the ivory– there are many kinds of sweetness! I love it when exactly the right thing comes back at exactly the perfect time! Sweet energy.

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