Sugar City Candy Brigades

oh Charlie they swim the streets
paddling great canoes of leeks
the carrot cats and parsnip pals
with carbine rifles and cannons loud
Oops, they seem to have hit a snag
an orange orca pod in drag


Hypno-pops alert lemonade tyrants
who send licorice cavalry to defend the front
fountains of candy from fire hydrants
sweetness leaks down the streets
stains gutters rainbow-colored for weeks
confectioner's avalanche roars towards the leeks
rescuing Sugar City from defeat


Da gum, da gum, ta-rum-pum-pum
fire da gum where the holly is hung
stick up the field where the vegetables come from
bring peppermint pikemen to the fore
deploy the chocolate orange to war!


the leeks sank down beneath the creek
the carrot cats barely wet their feet
from sinking canoes into the breach they leaped
dodging pinwheels and saltwater taffies
the last few bits of the tsunami


But there at the verge, at the allsorts ivy
the parsnip pals confronting the A.I.
as one planting placards which read "Buy Me!"
coupon-bearing buzzards descend from the sky
addicted to sales and clearances of shinies
they clear out the root beer barrels by and by


But where is dear Charlie, can they see the gates?
hard candy shatter dusts the sponge cake concrete
carrot cats take pot shots with their carbines at dates
as liquid wax sticks lie dead in the streets
we do hope that Charlie won't show up too late


an unprepared candy is easy to slaughter
the tyrants glower in their marzipan tower
gurgling the citric acid and water
spewing their sugar out in a shower
a blizzard composed of their lemony powder
growing to blight the fields of sunflowers


in settling dust of the whirlwinding zest
arise the old guard, the battle-scarred vets
candy corn, brittles, buttons and straws
lemonade unmade reality to bring them from rest
and rising above like dirigible doom
a flight of circus peanuts casts down a peach gloom