Pralines for Pauline

The jalopy'in' wagon on Rue Magazine

Proffers Roman Candy stretched out as taffy

While I pine, instead, for the nuttied praline

And not Neapolitan lies flavored as flashy

Why limit myself in stretched monogamy

To only one kind of treat for me?

Why challenge my jaws with tedious agony

From snacks I can't masticate properly?

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Strong mandibles are by the world overrated

And pliability is a proven solid food weakness

Give me a hardened fudgy nut overstated

And save me with heavenly sweetened uniqueness

Fudge and pecans and sugar and caramel

Succeed, where fails, pedestrian confection

Otherwise offered in lieu of the incomparable

Praline, leading quotidian life to perfection

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The sugar, whole milk, pecans, and vanilla

Perfectly sized for petite hands like mine

While taffy is no more than a speckless scintilla

Compared to the meaning of life pralines assign

Be gone! Jalopy of taffy and such

Despite chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry

A mouth full of braces can't eat things like that much

But a praline poses no such problem for me

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