all I have heard through the years is how bad sugar is for the body
they say it's not good to eat too much because it'll make you fat
they say too much will give you diabetes
they say this and that about the one thing I love the most
well they finally convinced me..
so I cut out all the sugar!
going through everything I could think of...
my cabinets
my fridge
my night-stand
my bathroom closet
my secret place under the couch
my car
my kids room
and my coat-pockets
I dumped it all in the garbage
sometime later...
on a Tuesday afternoon, as I was clipping the shrubs outside the house,
I came up on some poison ivy...
and darn it! I knew better than touch it. I knew that stuff was one of my worst enemies!! But stubborn me, I just had to pull it up.
next day....
waking up , I tried to open my eyes...
but couldn't.
They were swollen shut with poison ivy!
And man, I itched where I didn't even know I had ..places!
I looked everywhere, but had absolutely no Calamine Lotion.. nothing to stop the itching!
approximately fours hours later.....
I was still searching for something to ease my itching..
when suddenly I found a Hershey bar in the jewelry box.
why I looked in there , please don't ask!
as I unwrapped it..it melted all over my hands and ran down my arms and legs.
right in the middle of the mess I made on myself...my face started itching really bad...I just had to scratch it!
got chocolate all over my face...
oh man..I wanted to eat it, now I can't. If I try to lick it off, I'll get poison ivy all in my mouth and throat!
so I sat down on the side of the bathtub
to calm down a few minutes, before I take a shower
to wash that candy bar off myself.
after I got done doing that, I got dressed...
and to my surprise....The poison ivy was completely gone!
Not only that...
every wrinkle on my face had disappeared...
now, if you ask me what the fountain of youth is... I would have to say...
Duh!
In a list
A contest entry
- Lets Pretend #3 by daviscth.
390 points, ended January 7, 2008, 3 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - TURN A SILVER INTO GOLD CONTEST by Swan song.
600 points, ended April 25, 2008, 27 entries
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550 points, ended July 14, 2008, 58 entries
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Comments
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LOL! Maybe I will try a Hershey bar on my next rash LOL. This was very creative and funny. Thanks for entering
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LOL This was cute and funny lol well done lovely poem
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I am tiptoeing in to gather up this wonderful poem so that I may post it onto Poetry Planet.
Thank you so much! 
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Would you please please please allow me to post this marvelously clever and funny poem on the poetry blog I run for a newspaper in California? It is here:
blogcentral.thereporter.com/planet
And of course, your name and copyright would go on the poem. We get hundreds of hits a day.
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This could have been written just for me, except for the part about poison ivy of course. LOL. Thanks so much and good luck, Cathy
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Thank you Cathy for the Silver trophy! I'm glad that you like Chocolate too!!!
GBY
SilverButterfly
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oh my goodness...
I long to shower in chocolate...
if the fountain of youth is slathering myself in chocolate...I shall pay the price tenfold...
LOLLOLOL
if only...
your creativity is peaking with the end of year beginning of new year crescendo...
you go, girl...LOL
love your imagination...
Blessings! Tammy
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Haha! I love, love, LOVE this!
Good luck!
Síochán leat
~Mairèad~
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awwe thank you sweetie!
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It seems such a waste of a chocolate treat
To shower it off every day
I'm sure if you tried you could find someone sweet
To lick your skin clean as you play
No wrinkles, no itching and sexy horse-play
Sounds like sheer heaven for anyone's day!
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thanks for the uh...."sweet" comment!
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