Cioccolato
The quiet reckoning
Cioccolato.
My velvet assassin.
Stacked like promises,
patient as guilt,
beguiling as lovers.
I count the reasons,
(the calories),
then forget.
Caffarel, Domori, Venchi
Each flake consoles
my biting soul.
I snicker at the absurdity—
a silvering woman,
shamed by shiny wrappers
hidden like secrets.
Amedei, Novi, Modica
There’s no peace.
(You’d think there’s peace).
No, only the quiet whirr
of want,
then colpa.
Ferrero, Perugina, Guido Gobino
I reach again,
not for delight
but for refuge.
Not for hunger
but for …
And with the grey clouds
of my conditioning
floats cioccolato,
melting wilfully
into the shape
of my surrender.
Again.
- Margaret River ©
CP=s-xc
Where x=number of pieces of chocolate. Obviously, CP (Positive Chocolate Effect) is a net plus when you add s(satisfaction) to the equation. If we want more accuracy, then we can add g(guilt factor) to xc, which is cancelled out by cs (craving satisfaction effect). We still get CP=(s+cs)-(xc+g). Clearly in any natural situation, satisfaction and craving satisfaction is always greater than calories and guilt, leaving a natural net positive chocolate effect. It’s just physics. Chocolate is good for you.
Wonderful poem. I felt it rather than read it.
There it is: your New Year’s resolution.
Fun fact: yesterday, after dinner, I had bitter Chocolate on toast.