Food For the Gods

Food For The Gods We overload young flesh With hordes of old meat! We defile bodies so fresh With unwholesome treat We forsake healthy veggies In pursuit of fat steaks We re-direct our wages Where Butchers’ knife hacks! Not fats by many a mass Nor meat that is not clean Our bodies need grass For nutrients in the greens! Not muscles of a brute Effect of which is topsy-turvy Our bodies need some fruit To avert deadly scurvy! We take in food a bulk And yet, we exercise not With embonpoint we skulk Our zest becomes naught. We soak ourselves in oil; Salt an’ sugar is ever ours Ill-health’s deadly recoil Make us walk on all fours! While we enjoy fried food, Tasty and Junk food do revile. Being unhealthy and not good Our Health it does defile. * Don’t e’er abandon fruit For flesh in hot pursuit Better be the Sea fish Gracing our daily dish.... We sort o’ prefer to kill Than pick our dish for fill Bulls face the worst fate- Neutered ‘fore due date! Let Vulture’s be your roughage Or Hyena’s be your sausage- For, we love eaters of grass While we loath eating grass! * Appetite wakes up wild The very day it is reviled But by this hand and this writ I wish you healthy and fit! ** Dedicated to Dr. Ram MEHTA who inspired me with his poem: Alchemy, love-god’s dream. JM 09th Oct’ 2013