Thoughts on the Preferences of Milk-Tea Flavors

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It was always a matter of taste,
but if you were to ask him,
taste had nothing to do with it.
He favored the flavor of vanilla
in his tea: made creamy by generous
outpourings of milk and honey.
It was a day-in, day-out preference
that never occurred to him would change
when he felt himself adventurous
this one particular day.
He wondered, "why not try chocolate?"
and thusly decided to do so.
It didn't take long for him to realize
that his preference started shifting,
as he continued to take the same flavor
he decided to change that one autumn day.
One week, and he found himself using
a term he thought he would never use
for anything as trivial as this: infidelity.
Weeks, months, years, he's spent only
tea filled with vanilla and honey.
One slight moment in time rendered
previous experience unnecessary.
He has given in to the charms of tea,
chocolate and warm.
He has changed.
He's not sure if this is a good thing.
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This one-word experiment deals with the word "infidelity". Funny how some of the things I write using these words don't seem to really relate too much with the words given, haha. But it is a tremendous amount of fun and I'm glad I can do them!

Cheers!

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