The candy bar that's still sitting

on the aluminum shelf of the

number six check-out line

Collecting dust on the shiny,

sleek wrapper

Prepackaged (Artificial) Sweetness

Candy Caramel center

chewy, sweet, and soft

Milk Chocolate melted shell

sticking to the wrapper

only twenty-five cents.

and you.

you're just a store bought memory

Sitting on the aluminum shelf

of the number six check-out line

Right next to the candy bar that

no one wants.