EMPEROR

“The only Emperor
is the Emperor of Ice Cream”.
Wallace Stevens

Let’s get some
ices

currently spelled “iceSS”
the big esses there
to signify
exceSS

one fat lick
and you get
the instant brain freeze
you may not
have voted for
actually been asking
for

or,
iced in a trice,

may just be
three bullets point
blank through the face

catching
up with you
nine decades you
ducked them
but now they are here.

Published by Damian Garside