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’.