NaPoWriMo 2024 #09

Ode to this Walmart-Brand Organic Dried Mango Strip Shaped Vaguely Like South America

My tongue envies my fingertips

- and my nose is rubbing it in -

while my eyes explore your mountains and valleys and forests

of gritty not-sugar

(because there's no sugar added);

but these pious looks will not hold back the conquistador's

salivation. I will devour your golden sweetness,

and not fully satisfied, I'll look for another

world to conquer. Of course,

once they're all gone, I shall weep.

But you were really tasty.