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RE: Fruitcake - Poem #2 (Welcome to the Sombre Days)
You know I don't often follow poetry only because I don't feel I have the intelligence to get it!! However this poem I felt like you were writing about me directly. I have a deep problem with sugar that I cannot get enough of it. I appreciate it, thats the bad thing about living here, the cakes with cream is made with confectioners sugar so its sweeter than usual. See look what you made me do, gonna have to go and buy a cake. :D
There's this misconception that you need to be intelligent to understand poetry. Secret: a lot of poets don't even fully understand their own poems. There's art to interpretation, you take what you can understand. Yes, some poets use language that I have never seen before and therefore, I do not understand the language; however, the less sophisticated poets are much more understandable.
As for the content of the poem, I suppose a lot of people do love sweet stuff. This poem falls under the childhood section of my autobiographical collection, so I no longer have that dedication to sweets. One of the main reasons is that a lot of sweets are not vegan. Furthermore, long-term rewards are much better than short-term.
I'm not sure you read the comments before; but there is also a hidden context. Fruitcake can be a 'derogatory' term for us fabulous homo people, so innocently, the child in me assumes that people call me 'fruitcake' because I love to eat it and I am what I eat. It's a innocent and humorous way of embracing myself.