Skimming Aluminum Lake

Nature is a fugitive here now the air thick with metallic salt silver waves lap a barren shore Governments bend and lie as we all do – yet a silent army of synthetic colors and dyes march on attacking the palette O alumina! O ammonia! Fill me with your artifice! Yellow cakes Red sauces Purple candies Orange creams Blue cereals Green soups Let your conspiracy of agents wash over me - violate my organs destroy my mind and memory but never leave me without the taste of you Firming agents Coloring agents Anticaking agents Neutralizing agents Dough strengtheners Emulsifying agents Stabilizers and thickeners Leavening agents Curing agents I have never needed you and have never wanted you even though they claim you are generally recognized as safe Yellow cheeses Red icings Purple lozenges Orange liquids Blue creams Green gums The experiments began long ago handshakes with a toothless FDA a rainbow of profits for sellers all But the pain you leave behind is a story that has never been told the proof is a truth held hostage You have never really been scolded never have felt any sense of shame but we know all of your names now