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Rated: E · Poetry · Holiday · #2351983

Skylar's cooking takes center stage, requiring the Fire Department to be on speed dial.

Bigger Is Always Better, Right?
Christmas bells jingle, but Skylar has plans;
Her Easy-Bake oven is her grandmaster's tool,
Ready to bake a cake that's frosting-perfect and true.
Ignoring the manual's tiny 75-watt cue.
She's heard bigger is better, so she's swapped in a 200-watt bulb,
The kind that turns ovens into flaming catastrophes,
Much to her mom's horror, who thought it was a typo.
A plume of smoke spirals up, a sugar-coated typhoon,
Sweet dreams of sponge cake now crumbled to ash.


Disaster's a guest no one invited to the feast,
Aunt Karen still brings "the cake" every Christmas as a gag--
Yet the family cheers, "Best. Charcoal. Tradition. Ever!"


Prompt: Create an "Acrostic" poem using the words: CHRISTMAS DAY

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