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{May 25, 2010}   Ode to Lipgloss by Patty Esch

My dearest, oh dearest mother

once bought me some lip gloss.

As minuscule as that tube

may have seemed.

Little did I know

it held within mighty power.

A glossy goddess.

Once you bestow that great

abundance of ravishment

on your sweltering lips.

thou shall have a sensation

of a juicy watermelon

freshly ripened laid

upon thy mouth.

The aura of a

latterly plucked cherry

will fill thy nose of thy beholder.

And as you, oh you

paramount lip gloss,

smother yourself delicately.

Shall relish upon thy vigorous buds.

 as if an apple were bitten into

and thy juice was sweet as a

spring bee’s honey

newly pollinated.

Your brilliant shine will

blind the eyes

of many admirers.

For they themselves

know not how to grapple

your robust power.

As you nourish thy lips I feel

as though you are

my own tenacious being.

Upon like lips

like glue shall be laid

to nourish and embellish

their natural beauty.

So now I ode to you my lip gloss

for with you, I am me.

But better.

I am the glossy goddess.

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