Vice of Cake

How you ever prayed for something with all your heart?I mean put all your intension in getting what you want.I’m talking about manifestation baby.Your dream come true.Your little heart’s desire appearing right before your very eyes.At least that’s what you hope will happen.

That’s what I’m doing right now currently as you read this.I’m homeless broke and hungry.Maybe also insane.Just a tad bit but only if you think it’s crazy to only eat chocolate cake.Now sure I’m starving and beggars can’t be choosers.But I’m choosing only to eat chocolate cake.

Well it’s not even really a choice.If it wasn’t a choice perhaps a dare.No.More like a deal.See I used to have it all.The big house,the unnecessary expensive car and of course the ladies.I was a private equity lawyer and I billed my clients 1,250 an hour.

But I always want more and usually more of something that I shouldn’t have in the first place.Probably because it doesn’t belong to me.Okay I admit it.I want whatever you have.I want it that very moment I see you with it.If I can tell you are enjoying something ,I want it no matter what it is.I want it and I want yours in particular.You might even say I need it.

I was always told I was lucky because the devil could never tempt me enough that I would give up my soul.Why? I had everything I wanted and if I didn’t I would find a way to get it without anyone’s help.However my uncle said to me once that everyone has a price and if not a price then a vice.

Why sell my soul to the devil when I could get myself all that she supposedly offers .But if you’re playing name your vice with the devil you are going to lose each and every time.

I was starving.Something I haven’t yet gotten used to.But back then I didn’t go hungry.I killed and feasted.Well I bought it and I ate it.

I happened to see a lady on the street as I was walking to the cab and she was eating what looked like the most delicious chocolate cake ever.Like I said if I see you with something that I want I’m going after it.However I’m gentleman and I offered to buy the whole cake ten times what she paid for it.

This was not sufficient for the lady.I offered 15 times then twenty times what she paid for it.She would not budge.It was no longer about being hungry because I could of grabbed a hotdog on the street.It wasn’t about that particular chocolate cake though it was the greatest cake ever known to mankind.It was simply she owned it I wanted it and she wouldn’t give it to me.

Remember I don’t have a price but what I do have is a vice.My vice is I covet my neighbor’s everything.The devil must have known this because she tested me that day.I said I would buy just a couple of slices.I mean now I was just being pathetic because I was loosing the battle.That was not good enough so I offered thirty times what she paid for the cake for just one slice.She was still not convinced.Like did she think I didn’t deserve the cake or was her vice just being petty or selfish.Did the baker just die and no one would ever get to taste this masterpiece ever again.What was the issue?

I think she saw how desperate I was. Not for the cake but to get what I wanted.I had become an insatiable creature.I couldn’t take no for an answer but I could just take the cake.Right as I went to snatch a slice out of her hands I saw the boys in blue pop up to get a couple of hot dogs.Now didn’t that just take the cake.I didn’t care I wanted that slice.No.I needed that slice.My soul would be sick if it didn’t get what it longed for.

I got quiet.Images of her finishing the whole cake right in front of me began to fill my head.

Then the hate for her filled my heart.I couldn’t just take standing there.I had to negotiate some more.So I abruptly asked her where did you get it from.I’ll just go and buy my own cake I reasoned.Right? Done and done and I’ll probably do it again.Because that’s what I do.And what I do is always get what I want.

The lady let me know very rudely and very quickly that the shop had closed up for good.

It was only ten in the morning I said they will be open until closing I’m sure.Even if this is their last day I can buy a cake while they are still in business.They didn’t just open up and bake you a chocolate cake and then decide to to never be open again.I was angry at this point.

The lady said why not?They owed me and they were just keeping their part of the deal.

I asked the lady what kind of deal had she made with the baker.She replied the kind you keep.I said fine I’ll make a deal with you.She looked dead in my eyes as she ate a bite of that mouthwatering chocolate cake.

Then she spoke in a guttural voice the word terms.She said the terms are you have to eat chocolate cake for five whole years and nothing but chocolate cake.I don’t know what I was thinking I just said deal.

I wasn’t even hungry anymore but I just grab a slice of that chocolate cake and shoveled it down my throat.I walked away from her thinking about what I just agreed to.

That evening I went out to a restaurant for dinner with some clients.I ordered a salad and soup to get me started.I couldn’t help but think about only eating chocolate cake.It didn’t matter that was over and I would never see her again.Even if I did how could she force me to only eat chocolate cake?

I tried to eat the salad but I couldn’t stomach it.The soup made me sick.I lost my appetite until I saw the next table eating chocolate cake for desert.I was curious so I ordered a piece and I was able to eat it without any problems.My stomach felt at ease.I was no longer we nauseous.This went on and on.Day after day I tried to eat other things but to no avail.I would just throw it all up.I was sick and unhealthy but I could always eat chocolate cake.I lost my job because I was too tired from malnutrition to function.With the loss of my money went everything and everyone else.Everything but chocolate cake.

I now live in a alley behind a bakery.I wait and I watch the trashcans.I honestly don’t miss a meal.It’s like clock work.Everyday too much of that brown tempting concoction is made and thrown out.

Just like that my prayers are answered and I feast.I always get what I want and I suppose all I ever must have wanted was a slice of chocolate cake.