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Double Chocolate Coffee Buzz

Heather Dekin
Addicted to the legal over the kitchen counter variety
Betty Crocker and Paula Deen dealers of choice
Throw in some Hershey's Cocoa Powder
And four sticks of heavy unmelted butter
Pitch it in the homeplate pizza oven for best results
Careful not to burn your hands without an oven mitt
Hard to focus on grading history terms papers
With the smell of sugary goodness rising in the oven
A drug that's nowhere neat addictive as Marlboro Lights
But pretty close that one's never enough like a Lay's potato chip
Hypnotized by the ticking of the yellow timer hanging on the fridge
Startled and excited when it buzzed that the dessert was done
Allowing it cool before sprinkling the powdered sugar on
Brewing a pot of Taster's Choice to get more of an energy boost
To prepare for an all nighter of reading about Shakespeare plays
Time to let the sugar high begin and for the eventual crash landing
Into a full catatonic state once the semester is over
Couldn't make enough sugar to last that long
That's why there's another batch already baking in the oversized oven.

Published by Heather Dekin

I am a college graduate who has been writing since I was twelve. Over the years, I experimented in different areas of writing. Though each experience, I learned to decide what was right for me as a writer an...  View profile

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