9/27/13 7:20pm – 11/2/13 12:33am
suckers not swallowing gum
(juicing life)
he wouldn’t be doing himself any favors
denying himself the couple calories earned
by spitting out gum just because of lost flavors
when chewing itself amounts to calories burned
sure it will sit a brick in his stomach ten years
to him that’s money’s worth worth kissing the cashier
to not squeeze the life out of life is what he fears
and suckers not swallowing gum bring him to tears
he is juicing life as if life itself were made
from the lemons it gave him to make lemonade
in a pool of labors of fruit is where he’ll wade
pruned misreading the scale on which all fruit are weighed
forever unconcerned with tasting where he’s stayed
for the calories that count down his gum’s decade