The new candy maker
Once there was a rich country.
That country had a candy shop.
It sold candy in bright green wrappers.
The candies were so light that they almost weighed nothing.
These were the only candy that the people could eat.
The people in the country had lost their teeth.
They had stopped believing in toothbrushes
So, all teeth had rotten away.
After everyone had lost their teeth,
they all agreed that toothbrushes had been a lie.
They felt liberated.
The people in the country had also lost their spines.
All the spines had collapsed under the weight of gold.
They used to carry gold on the top of their heads when they ran around.
They felt it was there, but they could never see it.
In this toothless and spineless society,
the light candy was the only joy in life that was left.
The candy maker knew this.
He made sure that candy was available for everyone.
One day, the candy maker died.
A new candy maker took over the shop.
He found a few boxes of candy, and millions of green wrappers.
He wanted to become rich.
He decided to build the biggest candy business that the world had ever seen.
So, he decided to change the candy and make it hard and crunchy again.
He told the people that this was a new kind of candy.
A candy that you did not have to chew on with your gums.
It was a candy made to lick and suck.
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The people amassed around the candy store.
Their spineless bodies weren’t able to carry the heavy candy home.
They collapsed on the doorstep of the shop,
where they started licking and sucking the candy.
The candy was cheap to make,
but the candy owner did not want anyone to know.
So, he hid thousands of bags of candy in the storage room,
and put only few on display.
Everyone wanted to try this new type of candy,
so the price went up by the day.
The candy maker wanted to sell his candy faster.
The sucking and licking did not give him the returns he so much desired.
But he also did not want people to find out his secret:
How much candy was still in storage.
Suddenly, the candy maker had an idea.
The candy maker promised new teeth to everyone.
And even toothbrushes, if they wanted.
They could exchange those for their eyes.
Blinded by desire, people massively gave up their eyes for new teeth.
But the teeth were made of candy.
They bursted and splintered while munching the hard candy.
Soon, the people were back at were they left off, at sucking and licking.
Meanwhile, the candy maker candied the eyes
He wrapped them in bright gold paper.
People who still could see, quickly learned to avoid those.
People who had given up their vision, blissfully sucked their own eyeballs.
The candy maker indeed became rich
He was selling candied eyeballs wrapped in gold.
He hardly needed to touch his stocked up candy,
even though it would have been cheap to replace it.
He put a discount on green-wrapper-wrapped candy.
Only those who still had their eyes could see that.
And they made sure not to tell anyone else.
The people who still had eyes were grateful to the candy owner.
They felt that the candy owner treated them with respect.
When they lie sucking and licking on the doorstep,
spineless and toothless,
feeling proud that they still had a vision.
