Candy Shop - Day 2

 Mentos

So smitten with the neon

decades, we passed

the baton of stoic lozenges.

Life comes at you fast:

elusive parking spots,

the missing keys, wet paint,

worries too Nerf-soft

to wake up God or His saints.

Have to chew Dutch courage

to the sticking place,

let the blonde ingenious smirk

fizz, pose, nucleate,

minty cool in the teeth of disaster.

Life (natch) evolved to come even faster.