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Date Posted: 19:42:28 01/22/00 Sat
Author: Patti
Author Host/IP: dialup24.pcras1.igateway.com / 207.44.26.24
Subject: Iced Tea
In reply to: Mars 's message, "Sweet Tea" on 04:43:09 01/13/00 Thu

> Sweet Tea
>
> Mundane orange pekoe.
> I can taste their blisters
> As the tea leaves burn
> My lips.
>
> Sugared with aspartame
> Chemically lemon’d
>
> The caffeine rushes
> To judgement, swilled
> And swirled and hot
> And juicy again.
>
> Hmm.


Iced Tea

The warmth of the sun is cooled
among icebergs bobbing against
burning lips.

A lemon, its cargo jettisoned
and floating through the current,
lies shipwrecked on the bottom.

The advancing glacier scours
my throat, and judgment
languidly enters the ice age.

Ahhh.

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