What
is this humble potato?
Do
you smoke it or shoot it or what?
No,
it's there to be sautéed or smashed up,
Or
boiled on a stove in a pot.
Which
of us would allow this to happen,
To
ourselves or to those that we hold dear?
For
vegetables this doubles
the standards!
Meet with friends to mull it over beer.
Speaking,
sagely, of beer and other things that we imbibe,
Sit
down and contemplate the fate of vital liquid...
Even
Jonah was spewed up by the whale without harm,
Whereas
drinks're flushed through kidneys, then corrupted.
So
be grateful for all ingredients that SUSTAIN us,
And
give thanks for all our FOOD
and DRINK,
Offer
prayers for RESOURCES that we use up,
When
they're gone we'll all die, so PAUSE
and THINK!
Set
to the tune of "What a friend we have in Jesus"
for
Alison, (my nagging conscience)
© Stefan Lewis-Fish (13 March 1999)
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