Mountains of sugar
Sugary dust
I ate it all up
As a sugar freak must
My eyeballs turned red
And my tongue-skin turned white
I jumped rope on a treadmill
For half of the night
And then I collapsed
And the sugar drained out
Spilled out of my nose
As if it were a spout.
I woke up to find
Piles of sugar with snot
I ate it all up
As a sugar freak ought
With kneecaps a-shaking
And knuckles a-tense
I drilled eighty holes
In the planks of a fence
And then I collapsed
And the sugar I lost it
Poured out of my ear
As if it were a faucet.
I woke up to find
Piles of sugar with wax
I ate it all up
(That’s how sugar freaks act)
My forehead had spasms
My liver went limp
I caught and released
Forty thousand small shrimp
And then I collapsed
And the sugar just stayed
There’s a three-swallow rule
And the sugar obeyed.
I twitched while I slept
And my insulin spiked
But when I woke up
I felt pretty all right.
