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Sarah Tate

caramel

I watch those movies read those
books those poems
About jars and same-heartedness
See people turn to melted caramel
over one another
Well salt me down (as is the fashion)
and pour me over
your fucking ice cream already.
The jar in front of you is
full to overflowing, reddish,
too sticky but just sweet enough
And I know I'm just to your taste,
know it's you who makes the
decisions -
I, after all, am just
a glass shell and a chemical reaction
butter, sugar, and heat.

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