[eighth fragrance] text

[bauhinia]

ode to an icecube

some people say i'm tsun
but i don't think it's true
some people say i'm crazy
so yeah i'm crazy for you

okay so you're kinda an icecube
but i think you'll probably melt real soon
this line's about sea cucumbers
this line's about the moon

so we don't have much in common
we're in different hemispheres
you've gotta a lotta geothermal activity
i've got tons of skyscrapers

hey that didn't really rhyme
but here you go: my GDP's amazing
you can bet i'm the best when it comes
to investing i'm a total tax haven

that's a total lie and it didn't rhyme either
i kinda suck at poetry but i'm totally sincere
even though my expression's lacking, hey
i'll be your arthur if you'll be my guinevere

i pulled that off a lot better before
when it was a helen of troy joke
not that i'm referencing trojans here
but i still think i'm a pretty handsome bloke

give me one more chance
i'll really set you reeling
i was totally serious before y'know
i wanna know how you're feeling

[ no this isn't about anyone in particular why would you think that
also why am i posting this, why didn't someone stop me ]

Comments

[fierybluebird]

Annoyingly so, but he still isn't that old.

[bauhinia]

To be fair, he's pretty old compared to me.

[fierybluebird]

Aren't most of the countries?

[bauhinia]

There's tons younger than me, actually. There was one that was less than a month old when I came here.

[fierybluebird]

What seriously?

[bauhinia]

Seriously. I haven't met them or anything, but they exist.

[fierybluebird]

Eh??? Who? How?

[bauhinia]

It's called South Sudan, it's in Africa. [ He grabs a stick and sketches out a quick map of Asia and Africa and a sort of blobby Europe in some dust/dirt. ]

Here's Japan. [ Point. ] And there's me. [ Pointing to something you can't even see, oh well! ] All the way over here... [ Africa. He draws a jagged line between two shapes. ]

It used to be one country. Now it's two.

[fierybluebird]

Civil war? Or was it... one of those... Damn I forget the term China used. Basically the thing Russia and America did with Korea and Vietnam?

[bauhinia]

He talked to you about that? [ Cocking his head to one side. ]

[fierybluebird]

He did. We talk more than you'd think.

Ah... is that bad?

[bauhinia]

It's not bad. And I don't think about it. How much you talk, I mean.

But it's good, yeah?

[fierybluebird]

Understood. [Uwaaah why the moe icon? Nooo his secret weakness, cannot handre.]

It's... yeah... let's go with good. He knows a lot about you world and he was alone for 2000 years before Japan... I have a better idea of that than... well... [Glances away.] Though if he ever tries to set me up with a dragon I'm going to kick his ass.

[bauhinia]

[ Moe icon is always there, always waiting to give you heart trouble, Marco. ] It's not that I don't care, I just didn't really think about it.

[ Hmm. Well. ] I'll help you if he does that.

[fierybluebird]

[All the heart trouble.]

I appreciate that man. And should it come to that, I'll definitely take you up on your offer, eh?

[bauhinia]

[ I apologize on behalf of Hong Kong! ]

Okay, good. I'm glad to hear it.

[fierybluebird]

[It's okay, he secretly likes it.]

Likewise, eh?

[bauhinia]

[ Is this like how Hong Kong secretly likes hair ruffles? ]

Oh yeah? Thanks, it's appreciated.

[fierybluebird]

[Yes. Yes it is.]

Wasn't that already my line?

[bauhinia]

[ More research on this matter needs to be done. ]

Yeah, I guess it was. Maybe I've been hanging around Japan too much lately.

[fierybluebird]

Possibly. Maybe for all his easily influenced behavior he makes up for it by making everyone else more polite.

[bauhinia]

That's almost creepy somehow.

[fierybluebird]

You think so?

I'm guessing it does the reverse on me. I used to be more polite, but it's like he's polite enough for us both so I don't bother as much.

[bauhinia]

[ That's kind of cute? And amusing? ]

He's polite enough for half the city, in that way of his.

[fierybluebird]

Wanna know a secret~?