Ode To Ingenuity

Note to Reader: your poet was under the influence of an ungovernable heat dome while writing this flushed appreciation

“Chimp Friendly” Painting by Phillip Poplin

Popsicle, a good nickname for someone you love; wet & cooling
massage tool on days of x-dream heat

Pops
ickle 
tickles
your whole conception 
of treat

Costs less–oops, used 
to–than ice cream,
lasts longer 
freezes your tongue
stronger, less sticky
because it’s water

Popsicle medications: for the pill-averse; marijuana popsicle: good name 
for a band; pacifier that buys you time to think what you really want to say; 
cocktail popsicles for grownups, patent pending

Too bad rivers are running out of the main ingredient. Popsicle extinction
could happen

Give one to a monkey, in thanks