- White chocolate ice cream with honey coated walnuts and crushed waffle cone chunks on top. I prefer a towering spiral of soft serve but two scoops of frozen ice cream are just as sweet. Better than a walk-in freezer on a hot summer day. Better than a body shot at a drunken soiree.
- A bouquet of water-sprayed flowers from a girlfriend living miles away. Fresh potpourri for my musty bedroom locked up since week. Summoned up a smile as bright as a stargazer lily. Surprised me better than blue skies on my rainy birthday.
- Swimming at night in the ocean for the first time. Intrepid land mammals in an aquatic moonless sky. Perfect after a bottle of cranberry sangria drunk from plastic cups. Perfect before consuming a half dozen conch-deprived fritters.
- Stealing sea grapes from my neighbours backyard with three stooges. Tending to monkey business on a thick branch at the tree top. Better than two feet crunching disregarded grapes on the ground. Better with no leaves harboring wasp nests hidden in the tree.
- Coconut water, gin and condensed milk with chunks of coconut jelly deep in the ghetto where the tempo beats rough. This rumble. These drums. Those cow bells. Lick up the party like a tamarind switch on a sentenced behind. Everyone fall into trance like sprit possession. Light up the party like fire finding my ancestors back home.
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