June 22, 2017

ICE  CREAM  CONES 

There are seven ways,

and only seven ways

to enjoy an ice cream cone.

First:  top down lick, consuming the first cold

          sucks of a just bought ice cream cone;       

second: sideways licks around the sides

          but above the cone’s edge;

next: when outside on the summer sidewalk

         quick licks of melting drips

   and leaking ice cream;

next: bites - good teeth grabbing bites

         of small slabs of cold ice cream;

five:  slow, very slow, sucking and pulling

         into one’s mouth of mostly liquid

   ice cream - but with at least

   two paper napkins in hand;

sixth: sharing the same cone - but with

          two scoops to begin - with one’s beloved;

and seventh: sharing part two of one’s cone

          with one’s little kids. Ooooh good!

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017