FRIDAY NIGHT PIZZA

FAREWELL TO KIT KAT

FAREWELL TO KIT KAT

I could never resist your overwhelming sweetness

or the crispness of your conversation,

the four-part harmony in which you led your life,

your chocolate-covered pretenses.

It's not that you ever stabbed me in the back.

You betrayed me in other ways.

You'll always have admirers,

people who will swallow your sugar-coated lies whole.

I only got your broken edges,

the rough pieces where your waxy smoothness peeled away.

Those words were rough as sandpaper in my mouth,

The chocolate, almost too bitter to taste.

I can't stay with you, or I'll grow old and fat

and toothless and alone, while you move on,

wrapped in gaudy orange, lauded everywhere,

laughing behind my back.

I can't take it anymore. I'm leaving you

so I can take in the life I really need.

But if you ever want me, seek me out.

I'll probably be hanging with the Reese's.