freezie_friday
ovenbird
I
always
liked
the
white
freezies
best
.
They
taste
like
nothing
identifiable
and
I
admire
the
clandestine
way
they
guard
their
identities.
The
essence
of
a
colourless freezie
is
a
complete
surprise
,
an
accident
of
food
science
,
a
miracle
of
human
engineering
.
I
send
my
kids
to
school
with
toonies
in
their
pockets
so
they
can
purchase
plastic
tubes
of
sugar
water
to
suck
back
like
overgrown
hummingbirds
.
Joy
is
the
weight
of
that
coin
in
their
hands
the
second
before
it
is
exchanged
for
what
childhood
tastes
like
.
250523
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