I really must eat more...

I really must eat more cooked greens,
broccoli, peas and sprouts and beans.
These should comprise your Five-a-Day,
supposed to keep cancer at bay.

I really must eat many eggs.
The farmyard hen that lays them begs
that I consider how she's toiled;
poached, scrambled, fried or boiled.

I really must eat much more meat -
my jeans have slipped towards my feet.
I'm surely becoming thinner,
so it's sirloin steak for dinner.

I really must eat much more cake,
tea bread is what I like to make;
with tea, sultanas, sugar, flour,
soaking, baking, each takes an hour.

I'd like to eat moreToblerone,
my favourite munching on my own
and chocolate biscuits with ginger;
the chocolate stains brown my finger.

I really must eat some more words.
Then pour them out loud to be heard
in sentences all connected
as prose, plays, poems perfected.

February & September 2023