Love Song

We discussed poetry in my Children's Literature class and I fell in love with this poem and thought it was appropriate for the holiday.
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Love Song
Arnold Adoff

great goblets of pudding powder in milk
hot with marshmallows on a winter afternoon
syrup on vanilla ice cream frosting on a cake
a kind of cake dripping to dry on warm
doughnuts fresh from oven candy
candy bars
bars chunks thick and broken pieces squares
spoons and pots and lots
before brushing
fudge and milk
and german and sour cream
light and dark and bitter sweet and
even
white
you are no good
for me
your are no good

you are so good

Chocolate
Chocolate
i
love
you so
i
want
to
marry
you
and
live
forever
in the
flavor
of your
brown