Words Of a Feather

Sugar is sweet

Sugar is a delicious treat

Sugar makes all the world’s best foods better

Ice cream, cookies, and cake

Sugar is what makes them what they are

Sugar makes life sweeter

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A girl eats a spoonful of sugar every day

She may tingle, she may twitch

Yet her life is always sweet

She usually avoids eating too much

She doesn’t want to hurt herself…

…But sugar isn’t something she can get rid of

Sugar is anywhere and everywhere for her

Sugar’s consumption cannot be stopped

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One day, the girl has a test

She studies day and night to prepare

She eats a spoonful of sugar, and then another

She eats another spoonful, and yet still another

She eats sugar like her life depends on it

Each minuscule grain more exhilarating than the last

The sugar only weighed her down

It gave her a poor tummy ache and her test didn’t go too well

She has yet to find out about her test, so she swallows more sugar

It slides into her mouth and dances on her tongue

Leading the girl’s curiosity to reach its peak

Wondering how poorly the girl did

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Another day, the girl has to perform

She practices in her room over and over, still not thinking it’s enough

She eats a spoonful of sugar, but that’s not all

She takes a cup of sugar and gulp it down

The girl begins to jump about and chatter her teeth

The world is so slow yet so fast at the same time

At the performance, she still jitters and ponders

Millions of thoughts race across her mind to reach her

“What if I mess up?” “This isn’t good enough.”

Almost as choking as the sugar she consumed tonight

The girl does well with her performance, but she still consumes the sugar

She’s still weighed down by the sugar and the thoughts it’s feeding her

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Her doctor recommends that she doesn’t consume too much sugar

Her parents and friends as well

Unfortunately, this girl cannot stop eating sugar

Every time she eats a spoonful of sugar, she knows she shouldn’t have done so

She wishes she could take it back, and so, she eats more sugar

This sugar is not her friend

Friends do not scare one another

The girl knows this sugar is the devil in disguise, but…

She can never stop eating the sugar

Even when she tries to avoid it all day, it still trickles its way into her mouth

Consuming her rather than her consuming it