One Lump or Two?

I had a sweet tooth for things that were not quite so sweet in return

Sugar plums and fairies, as it happened

were only dancing further and further away

and this was all Adagio

and this was all in play

then and there for the fire in the firecrackers

like people that like donuts give their cards away up front;

they are the first to go, go, go

one by one and week by week---

and weak in the knees

Because stargazing always starts out with such promise---

like everything else intoxicating

only to fall flat on its aftertaste

fermenting and decomposing in the yellowing residue down there

And right here on the tip of my tongue sits the best kind of Cubism

and the most hush hush things that cause me to go right along with all of these bad decisions

with merely the recollection of last night's laughter