A Whole Lot of Shakin'

There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on Whenever I walk down the street People all stop and stare at me But I'm no longer considered a freak The percentage of overweight people Is increasing in leaps and bounds It's surely an epidemic the experts say We really need to slow it down I'm certainly not alone in my plight The numbers are quite disarming Studies show more than sixty per cent Are overweight, that's really alarming Put on some comfy old walking shoes Walk a few times round the block Better than watching the telly all day And drinking beer around the clock It's a dangerous path to oblivion That we, as a society are travelling Our whole way of life is in jeopardy It's in danger and quickly unravelling There will be a time of reckoning soon The life we once knew will be gone We'll all become a bunch of inert blobs Lacking the will to carry on ©Jack Ellison 2012