Plus No Calories!

* * * Shall I contrast thee to a candied treat? Thou art by far the tastier delight; A nougat gobbled up is bittersweet, With nothing left to nibble on or bite. Sometime too sticky thick to full digest, The caramel, alack, untouched remains; While often is a tooth put to the test, In crunching peppermints or candy canes. But thy confection to a poem compares, Though not the verse suffused with oily lard Or heavy cream and artificial airs E'er sugar'd by some fulsome, fruity bard. Nay, buds of taste which taste with tongue in cheek Find thee alone the sweetmeat true unique! * * * A Menippean Satire on Syrupy Sonnets