Thursday, June 22, 2017

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



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