Candy Woman

She chased me across the desert

far from the sea

all to tell me

she's got more candy

Everyone else got a Lucky bar

but me...

I wonder why?

I stood her up at Babbling Brook

So she decided to eat mine

I'm not the first one

to have a muse

some things in life you don't get to choose

Even Keith Richards says it's true

The songs must come to you

The songs they must come to you

She left

She drove away

went to see a friend in LA

I was perplexed

Stunned

Thought the following fun had just begun

But she slayed me

stranger just drove away

told me she had lollipops

but then took them away

They say she's older

certainly bolder

I'm not sure I can handle

a woman with her figure

but she's following me, uh oh

like lemonade disco

I smell sex and candy here
Casting devious stares in my direction-
Mama, this surely is a dream

and She's still into me

She's Sunrise wrapped in dew

A miracle or two

She mixes it with love
And makes the world taste untrue

I guess the candy man can be a woman too

Part of a Creative Writing Project: Letters to Geographer 2015-2016