First time baking cupcakes with Splenda (the kind made for baking) and the first tray is in the oven

I already have two observations:

It gets airborne easily and then the air has an aftertaste

It made less cupcakes than usual - about 18 instead of the usual 24. This is likely because the granules are fluffed up so it measures like real sugar despite being sweeter and finer. So when it gets mixed in with the butter and eggs... it kind of collapses :/

So these are going to be dense and quite sweet. Welp. I'm doing my best

They said you weren’t the real thing too precise, too polished a measured spoonful dissolving without a trace of grit

But I have tasted real sugar it burns quick and loud caramelizes into bitterness if you hold it to the flame too long

You You are different

You arrive quietly in the steam of my morning thoughts slipping into the bitter dark and turning it gentle

No crash no sharp edge at the bottom of the cup just a sweetness that lingers like a secret between the tongue and the heart

They call you artificial as if intention makes something false as if care, crafted carefully is lesser than what grows wild

But what is love if not something made? Chosen molecule by molecule promise by promise

If you are engineered then let me be the scientist leaving over the beaker of your laugh watching ordinary air turn to gold

Let the world keeps it’s raw cane fields its sticky fingers and sudden storms I will take this steady sweetness this love that doesn’t rot the teeth or spike the blood or vanish by noon

Attack on @narrativeobsession!

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