Pittfalls

Pittfalls

Shopping on a diet is very tricky

Staying away from sweet and sticky

carrots, apples, are on my list

with celery, bananas, and pretzel twists.

lean red meat and chicken breasts

cayeene pepper and lemon zest.

Are you getting hungry yet?

Never shop while hungry, so they say.

But we get there anyway.

And who can read those tiny labels

to pronounce ingredients, we are not able.

Neither can we understand

the longest words in our favorite brands.

To the checkout lines that tempt

with candy bars and peppermints

apple turnovers and lemon tarts

now, how did those get in my cart?

oatmeal cookies and frosted limes

(well, they looked healthy at the time)

real cream butter and cressent rolls

frozen cake and doughnut holes.

Now that I'm home, what can I do?

Donate it all to Timbuktu?

next time I have a new strategy.

We' better go in two's or three's.