Missing Link In the Food Chain

All around us It’s an epidemic Man-induced plague It’s a conspiracy To hook people To non food foods Eats that should be Technically inedible Anything to grease the wheel Of factories and consumerism Nothing grown naturally Nothing from a farm Heavens no Promoting foods whipped up From powders and chemicals None of those Vegetables or fruits Or other live stuff Let the population thrive On plastic derivatives Deceitfully charming Taste buds everywhere Inducing dependency Decomposing corpses wandering Like loose time bombs Waiting to explode AP: Honorable Mention 2023 Submitted on February 7, 2022 for contest A STRAND (1068) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND Originally posted on November 11, 2017