marshmallow
raze so many times i've stared
at a small absorbent ball
of cotton and imagined
setting it aflame, pale
and impaled on an unwound
wire hanger, if_only to
know the bitterness of
a thing mistaken for one
of its sweeter siblings
and made to endure the
indignity of being burned
by an upright animal that
can't tell gelatin and corn
syrup from gossypium.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from