Tactical Failure
Cream whipped up frothy as air smothering chocolate cake—
how much more temptation is my rival going to make?
She knows that my true love is fond of skinny hips,
and yet she makes confections she knows will tempt my lips.
Tiny marzipan cherries adorn the cookies that
she knows that I will not resist and that they’ll make me fat.
She wants to exacerbate a rift she knows is there
ever since as a surprise I cut my knee-length hair.
His complaints resounded over the neighborhood.
Everyone heard his distress, so I’m sure she could
as she passed by on the sidewalk, walking very slow
on her way to the juke joint where they both liked to go.
I know she had designs on him for the very next day
she brought three dozen cookies lined up neatly on a tray.
They were for consolation for she knew we were in trouble,
and so she baked me cookies and made the frosting double.
Thus did this vixen hasten my love affair’s demise
by appealing to my weakness and doubling my size.
And thus because her tactics seemed so perfectly to work,
I wound up with a sweet life while she would up with a jerk!
Prompts today are frothy as air, exacerbate, marzipan, resound and joint.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Sweet revenge of karma
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Lol A sweet life I too would prefer over a jerk!
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Sneaky! I’ll have to remember that one 😉
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I laughed throughout this one anticipating on where it was going~!
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guess it was because “been there done that” to me.. But no more of those coffee cup cakes again~!
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Makes me want one.
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well be sure you use baking powder, not baking soda – our government is watching for explosions, I know because I see them watching my house~!
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You’ve been on their radar for awhile now, Sam.
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