{"sf1_id":506304,"sf2_id":"lmXj8ky1","title":"Zen Cookies.","author":"Secret Savvie","words":330,"posted_at":"2013-02-25T09:46:00.000Z","tags":["For nicki","Little sisters"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/506304-zen-cookies","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/lmXj8ky1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/31/50/31504c54-d05e-4a2b-a264-6eb8589d9961","description":"I'm not much of an artist. I don't write stories. But I do write poetry when the mood strikes. - Steph","content":"Zen Cookies  \n  \nSitting on the grass with ice cream on her mouth  \nShe looks up  \nAnd asks me what she did wrong.  \nI kneel down beside her  \nChocolate puddles sticky on my feet. And say  \n\"The ice cream fell.  \nIt wasn't you  \n--you can't make the ice cream stop melting.  \nDon't cry.\" _And have a cookie._  \nShe opens her hands eagerly waiting, smeary fingers stretching to the sky  \nHer sticky-messy mouth opened wide in an O  \n\"Here. You can't spill cookies, they don't drip off a cone.\"  \n  \nSummers and winters  \nShe comes home crying to her room  \n_...Boys are awful,_ she says time and time again. _What did she do wrong,_ she screams.  \nI can't believe my eyes are dry, hers flooded on the floor for days. But I  \nKnock quietly on her door and gently say  \n\"Yes, they're awful.  \nIt wasn't you  \n--you can't please men who just want sex.  \nDon't cry.\" _And have a cookie._  \nShe sniffles back her tears, wobbly hands reaching for my arm  \nHer clinging grasping fingers tighten on my sleeve  \n\"Here. You can't be dumped by cookies, they won't lie to sleep with you.\"  \n  \nAt night the moon   \nIs cold, its face a loveless grey  \nUsers make me sick, I think - my eyes are bleary red  \nI just can't fall asleep... I couldn't live without that smile. Her bandaged knees  \nThose tiny smeary hands that smudged my shirt   \n**What did I do wrong,** I ask. **How did I go wrong,** I scream. And then  \nI hear her talking in her sleep...and all those words come back.  \n_It wasn't you, you did no wrong_  \n_--you can't teach users not to_   \n_USE!_   \n_ **AND!** _  \n_ **HURT!** _  \nDon't cry. _And have a cookie._  \nI wipe my stinging eyes, my shaking fingers reaching to her face  \nHer warm and creaseless forehead wrinkles with her dreams.  \n_Here. She won't be hurt by cookies, they don't pretend to care about her._  \nDon't cry. And have  \nA _cookie._\n\n  \n  \n\n"}