cartoon soda

Did you ever have cartoon soda? 
It's beautiful, like solid color 
and cutout bubbles. 
And if you shake it up it foams 
pure white with a thick black line 
around, like a thought balloon 
of improbable force. Everybody's 
soaked, and - purple, of course. 
Or whatever color. No one knows 
when it foams up white, where
the color goes. 

In classic times, it tasted like 
pure cane sugar and whatever 
color ink. These days it tastes 
like computer light, in about what 
magenta, yellow, cyan mix 
you'd think. 

In olden times, it was always 
grey. From light to dark, solid 
tones would play in a bottle 
or glass. I never had 
one of those, but I bet 
it was not so bad.