A-side

Look at it, I said.

I was touched and amused

you said,

‘It’s huge’.

I was hoping you’d say,

‘It’s beautiful’.

B-side

Look at it, you said,

and all I could think of was a Chupa Chups

as I imagined the flavours of

strawberry cream,

cherry,

bubble gum,

watermelon,

cotton candy,

hoping for caramel.

I walked into a candy shop,

with light glints on glass jars filled with

vanilla taffies,

pear drops,

and money in my pocket

looking for the everlasting

lollipop.

I wanted it in my mouth.
I wasn’t just trying to be nice
nor polite
when fingers curved around.

'Nice look and feel' was too designie.

‘Mighty’ was too advertisie.

’Sugar, syntactic sugar’ was too techie.

Look at it, you said,

and all I could think of was the seconds passed

since I walked into a candy shop

and suddenly, on the tip of my tongue

too shy to even utter the words

_‘Like a nordic semi god who tastes like caramel’_

_'Mint egy nord félisten akinek karamell íze van’_

_'Come un semi dio nordico che sa di caramello’_

as I imagined

your handsomeness

in my mouth.

So you see

I said ‘huge’.