I Should Know Better
I grow my own food
& make my own pickles
I make my own yogurt
I make tomato sauce from scratch
but every time I leave a hardware store
a video store a country store a magazine shop
I want to put a quarter
into that crusty candy dispenser
selling Mike & Ike’s (which I don’t even like)
or peanut peanut M&Ms or Skittles
I know that candy has been in there for years
But I just want that one small handful
of cheap & attainable sweetness
I can’t help it
I want those candies
I want them bad
panache, perhaps 