No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty-first century that this icebox was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than plums
hey I just met you and this is crazy, but here's an icebox, do you think you might have accidentally helped yourself to some plums from it that had a big label on saying very clearly PLEASE LEAVE: FOR BREAKFAST! maybe?
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the missing plums and my feeling that the ice box was empty.
I saw the best plums of my icebox destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the unlit shelf at dawn looking for a hungry thief
Ice cold plums, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Ice-cold-plums: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice and he stole some plums.
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Made glorious summer by this plum of yours
The typos are how you know I am not AI
dragging themselves through the unlit shelf at dawn looking for a hungry thief
And the man said, The poet whom thou gavest to be with me, he gave me of the plums, and I did eat
In the heart of the icebox
Skidding across the kitchen floors of melted ice