Sea Salt Caramel

Suave

Visruth Srimath Kandali

Red and white, dancing to an unknown tune
Speckles asunder, colors amalgamating
Distorted view of self (reflected in blemished mirror), in colors—housed in plastic
cup
A confluence of creativity

Unspoken parlance—painfully pithy!
Effervescent dance deems me despondent
Resplendent mixture I envy (stares back, ennui)
My diatribe unadorned and uncared
Vitriolic responses to a pusillanimous cry

Pervicacious, I begin anew
Rococo cup, plain? beautiful?
Sycophant nevertheless
I shall join her anon—so I scry
Inchoate idea born from mind, nurtured by ego (so puissant), articulated as
ichor—through blood spilt

The object of my corpulence, I vesper for a meeting, erstwhile gossamer and
dissemble
Now it rules, tenebrous and laconic
I languish, rue the circumstance

For I want Strawberry Cheesecake but I’m all outta cash