Notions, Potions and other Things

Notions of grandeur
Of doing great things
Emotions of fear, hate
Jealousy and desire
Potions of love
Potions of dreams
Potions of hell’s fire
Witch’s cauldrons
Brew and bubble
Trouble over flowing
Steam up the midnight hour

Maidens blush,
Surrender maidenheads
In the name of love

Notions, potions, sundries
Huddle, randomly scattered
Among other unknown things
On dusty shelves
In the back corners
Of old drugstores

Sundaes on Sundays
Chocolate ice cream melting
Drops of frosty coolness
Drip delightfully off chins
Small pink tongues
Lick sticky sweetness
Off of smudged, pudgy hands
Children’s laughter
Drowns out plaintive music
Pouring out of
Cracked, aged speakers
More nickels slide into
Rusty slots of a tinny jukebox

Notions of a kiss, emotions of lust
Overcome a preacher’s teachings
A parent’s warnings ignored
Sunday’s crisp starched dresses
Wilt in sun soaked alley ways
Pristine whiteness stained with chocolate
Stained with sticky seeds of love
Are thrust with a sense of shame
Amidst clothes waiting for Mondays wash

Notions of peace, prosperity
Emotions of hope, fulfilled dreams
Potions of trust, expectation
Witches cauldrons brew and bubble
Opulence, affluence overflowing
Steam up the midnight hour

Be-whiskered old druggists
Add cherry and nut toppings
To sticky chocolate sundaes
Melting on warm Sunday evenings

Notions, potions, sundries
Haphazardly scattered
Among other unknown things
On dusty sagging shelves
Overtop piles of mouse droppings
In dark, dismal corners
Of old drug stores