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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