Chocolate makes it all better

and when the chips are down

the semisweet, the milk chocolate and the

bittersweet almonds dusted in powder,

eat them all, chase them with a hot Ovaltine

or a cold glass of Quik

remember when we watched the ski racers

in the Jura 

my whole body was shaking in the cold,

we ate roasted chestnuts and drank 

hot Ovaltine

to keep warm

tomorrow I will eat chocolate truffles at work

and chocolate chip cookies

and drink cacao from the jungles

of West Africa.

I will feel exotic.