in a sweeter world

Photo by Flemming Fuchs on Unsplash

in a fantasy, i pull cotton candy bedsheets off my lollipop legs

and saunter over to the living room window.

my fingertips separate the licorice blinds

and say hello to the gumdrop in the sky.

the revved-up jelly beans and their pop-rock engines

bounce along the sour rainbow straw roads.

i pour a cup of sugar into a caramelized mug

and spoon it into my mouth — in a sweeter world,

i would not need help getting

the medicine to go down.