Little Mo

Paul Bell

So strange, it was dark in the white room

People pondered over marshmallow figures all stood in a straight line

That one at the end, it has eyes

So it has

Godlike, we bow in awe

Hundreds and thousands applaud in unison

Chocolate legions stand routed

The eyes have vanished

Death searches in the night

Jelly baby heads abandoned as mothers cry in colour

Candy fish lead the cortège as the night floats downstream

One jelly baby saved

Adopted Tobleronian

Something's brewing

Death in the afternoon

God speaks

Go forth to jelly mountain

Hundreds and thousands follow

Tobleronians in hot pursuit

Parting of the waves

Plague the Pharaohs army

He leaves the smarties

To climb jelly mountain

God gifts him tablet for the journey down

The smarties have built a chocolate idol

Furious, he breaks the tablet in two

With the Tobleronians on one side

Smarties on the other

He came to his only conclusion on jelly mountain

You just can't get the 'Staff.'

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  • arqios

    Layers and layers! And the managing of people's greatest challenge are the people themselves! a definite Fave 🙏🕊️

    • Paul Bell

      Yes, never leave people alone with chocolate.

      • arqios

        Mmm... unless they share!

      • sorenbarrett

        Maybe not the staff but surely the shaft that one will surely not see the promised land. A sweet tale of a confectioner's delight. Well done Paul

        • Paul Bell

          Chocolate is good, gods delight.

          • sorenbarrett

            So the Mayans said and look what happened to them

            • Paul Bell

              If only the Mayans had just used the same advertising company as the Aztecs.
              Mind you, can you still get an Aztec bar. Make that my thing for today, source an Aztec bar.

              • sorenbarrett

                Neither Mayans or Aztecs used sugar in their chocolate. It is sugar that sells it today

                • Paul Bell

                  In Britain, we put sugar in sugar. Sure It's to kill us off quickly.

                • Tristan Robert Lange

                  Paul, this is brilliant…biblical parody at its sweetest and strangest. You turned confectionery chaos into scripture. I was grinning all the way through. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦‍⬛

                  • Paul Bell

                    If the church offered chocolate bars in the way in, it would be packed out.



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