The Biggest Cavity: poem

The Biggest Cavity

You keep burning your fingers in the pie,
but you're so hungry...
Put them back in because bread just isn't sweet enough

for you.

Spreading like frosting, sugar-coated, thinly veiled lies.
Guilt-powdered sucker like a gingerbread
mistress' spoon.

Keep tearing me down.

I'm gonna build a city with your name in lights on the marquee,
At the palace of "just leave me be".
And you'll get your
one-woman snake-oil
sideshow spotlight.

Wearing an amulet I made today
To keep the candy canes away,
Exfoliate you from my skin
And keep your greedy throat away.
I let the mice inside the trap
To show the children what poison will do.
When you believe a smile that runs like glue...