Light Up Your Life...

Small wooden sticks,

coated with sparks —

light up Day & Night.

(Un-worldy & strange,

they fire up a range —

candles & BBQs, too.)

We live in no shadows,

thanks to potassium chlorate,

sulfur, Gum Arabic, & sugar.

(While some keep matches

to light up lives — others collect

match-book covers in the dark.)

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