Chocolate On Mars! the newspapers blared
and we all went out into the summer school streets and cheered.
And NASA broke out the BLTS, the thermoses
of cocoa.
School let out and we headed over
to Mrs. Filagrees Candy Treasures
but she was all out
so we drank coconut milk instead
and traded old stories.
how the first expeditions found butterscotch.
better luck next time, the board games said
on the little green cards
no little green men.
and then, the peppermint swirls appeared
in plain vanilla ice cream overnight...
Bradbury took his glasses off
and whooped it up
with chocolate covered malt balls
exactly like
the ones I got sick on
after I sneaked the whole bag
and the doctor said
not knowing I was bad,
here: try this chocolate coated medicine,
two spoonfuls
as I stared
realizing it's true:
God is everywhere.
mary angela douglas 25 march 2016
P.S. The part about the stomach ache medicine being chocolate after I got sick from all the Whoopers no one knew yet I had pigged out on at 8 years old, is really true. I still remember thinking, looking at the kind old family doctor who made housecalls: only God knew I got sick on chocolate and now he’s punishing me with more. Poor Dr. Ogden. He thought he was doing a great kindness to give me chocolate flavored medicine. Truly I felt judged.
and we all went out into the summer school streets and cheered.
And NASA broke out the BLTS, the thermoses
of cocoa.
School let out and we headed over
to Mrs. Filagrees Candy Treasures
but she was all out
so we drank coconut milk instead
and traded old stories.
how the first expeditions found butterscotch.
better luck next time, the board games said
on the little green cards
no little green men.
and then, the peppermint swirls appeared
in plain vanilla ice cream overnight...
Bradbury took his glasses off
and whooped it up
with chocolate covered malt balls
exactly like
the ones I got sick on
after I sneaked the whole bag
and the doctor said
not knowing I was bad,
here: try this chocolate coated medicine,
two spoonfuls
as I stared
realizing it's true:
God is everywhere.
mary angela douglas 25 march 2016
P.S. The part about the stomach ache medicine being chocolate after I got sick from all the Whoopers no one knew yet I had pigged out on at 8 years old, is really true. I still remember thinking, looking at the kind old family doctor who made housecalls: only God knew I got sick on chocolate and now he’s punishing me with more. Poor Dr. Ogden. He thought he was doing a great kindness to give me chocolate flavored medicine. Truly I felt judged.
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