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Jimmy The Gingerbread Man-

Jimmy the Gingerbread Man,

red hot cinnamon buttons

and icing cuffs,

wanted some candy, late at night,

so he took a bite

one by one

of his cinnamon

button

until suddenly he was full and done

Then looked down with candied eyes

and let out a gasp of surprise

He was naked, he'd eaten his clothes

spared his eyes, but even munched his nose

He was a piece of nude food

Now how he felt so intently

that life was fleeting

especially when you can't stop eating

yourself

All the other cookies on the shelf

laughed and pointed and taunted

and little Jimmy felt haunted and kooky

showing off his dough felt spooky

So he devised a plan he would hatch out of the jar

at 5 till midnight and seek

goodies ornaments and decorations from a cabinet

So he laid 'neath a cookie sheet

silently counting the hours

He didn't know how good of a climber he was

or if he could really open a door

but suddenly the light shone in

the lid was ajar

and into the eyes of a cookie monster

all of them stared frozen,

a freckled fatty of twelve

began a massacre of the dessert shelves

A few unfortunate ones were immediately devoured

by the hungry human that towered,

but that monster must not've liked the taste

of gingerbread he swallowed in haste

and so he picked and plucked off their buttons

sucked and chewed them down,

licked off their icing

and left them there,

naked and free,

no one dared to laugh or throw a jibe

for they were all as one in their Gingerbread Tribe.

(started a few weeks ago in Belle Isle, OKC,

finished 2:55 pm, Seattle, WA)