Saturday, December 7, 2024

pop tarts and other assorted poisons

the new
nicotine is sugar
and
fructose,
corn oils
and a hundred other
unpronounceable
chemicals
that they
are putting in our food.
keeping us
addicted
to the good taste,
the dopamine
fix
of sweetness.
no wonder
everyone is fat
and sick.
taking pills
by the handful,
sticking
needles
into their bellies
to remove
the last dozen donuts
that they ate.
the playground
is full
of tubbies
in stretched clothes.
heart attacks, cancer
and diabetes
used to be rare
fifty years ago.
now it's the new normal.
the scale
is broken and the doctors
don't care.
there's money
to be made here in them
there hills
and rolls.

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