As we gear up for another round of New Year’s Resolutions that inevitably include eating healthier, I came back to a poem I wrote some time ago on this very theme. Of course, it wasn’t so much about eating healthier back then. It was just about maintaining that certain type of figure. You might think that would matter less over time, but it turns out that is not the case.

Come be with me

And we shall feast

On all the foods

I hate to eat.

Potatoes, ice-cream

candy galore

Goodbye to foods

we did adore.

No breads, spaghetti

or red meat.

All the foods

that are a treat.

Where’s the chocolate

the cake to munch.

Goodbye, goodbye

Now what’s for lunch?

Lettuce, spinach

What a treat

Are we doomed forever

these things to eat? 

Come eat with me

and we no more

Will feast on foods

we both adore.

Come eat with me

and we will prove

How abstinence molds

the body smooth.