Berries with their plump and corpulent red and purple,
Moist melon's sweet juices, tangy mangoes, tart limes.
White fiber, soft loving bananas, lascivious moist tomatoes:
As we nourish, we celebrate Nature's allure and design!
Enticing us to gorge our selves on her luscious delights,
Littering and defecating her seed though out the earth,
To propagate this fundamental food, fruit falling everywhere.
Cucumbers crunch, celery crackles lively spray,
Carrots hard and sweet; soft and rich when cooked,
Broccoli's brisling flower, lettuce's leafy coil,
Onion's caustic savor, herbs and spices make creative dishes sparkle:
Leaves, vines, roots and tubers grant us substance!
Wheat, rye, barley, nuts, ground seed- so hard and tender.
Milled, moistened, mixed and sweetened into a soft fluffy powder,
To feed microorganism as they germinate and grow.
Excreting gas- expanding, puffing, swelling,
Bloated dough is smashed and kneaded,
Pounded and stretched, Pounded and stretched,
Cut and shaped into rectangular loafs,
Rising again in butter slick pans,
Placed in a hot oven to be baked into bread,
Producing a deep rich savory aroma,
Stimulating olfactory sensation into ecstasy!
Chicken embryos, suppressed into soufflés and omelets,
Eggs fry in oily pans forming yellow gushy mounds
Upon congealing, slippery, frizzled whites.
Cows are primed and confined, their utters ripe with milk,
Purloined from growing calves, pumped by cold machines,
Conveyed in mass to consuming humanity
Guzzling cool white refreshing fatty lactose emulsions.
Whipped into frothing cream, oily butter, and bitter buttermilk.
Funky fermentation and decay- creating yummy yogurts, cheeses and sour cream.
High tech radar scouts for masses of fish, ravaging the sea!
Nets haul in clams, oysters, crabs, lobster, shrimp, sushi and squid.
Grilled, fried, broiled and steamed, sumptuous seafood, a grommet's delight.
Cattle are branded, prodded and slain,
Boars are emasculated, penned, and slaughtered,
Poultry cooped up, force fed and butchered
To give us rich, luscious protein laden meals, True gritty food from high on the top of the food chain!
How our stomach churns and yearns to eat this "real food".
Wasted resources and humanitarian concerns aside,
How we crave to be supersaturated by these culinary delights.