Conjured Delight

Fresh baked bread and chocolate chip cookies mixed together in the air as if an alchemist knew it would have a strange effect on me
Stopped in my tracks and wondering where it is coming from
my imagination is the source or this mockery
I can almost taste them
both warm
both a bit chewy
both bursting with flavor as they fill my mouth with unbelievable joy
I am satisfied
my expectations were not unmet
and then a lemon rears it head

And all I can do as it exposes itself to the knife
is wonder
as I cannot control the juices of resistance
gathering around my tongue and in my cheeks
no delight
no delight