11-14-2025, 06:50 AM
"Fast Food Fast"
My hungry eyes scan kitchen bare
then reach, defeated, for my phone.
No will to cook or even care,
I summon slop to eat alone.
Hoping in vain this time it'll be
less bland, and not so hideous.
It arrives, half-cold and sweaty;
To plate it seems ridiculous.
I warm it in the microwave’s glow,
Its grease congeals to sludgy paste.
One bite confirms what I should know;
Regret is all I get to taste.
Fast food is fast, but food it's not;
Now it squirms, coiled in my gut.
My hungry eyes scan kitchen bare
then reach, defeated, for my phone.
No will to cook or even care,
I summon slop to eat alone.
Hoping in vain this time it'll be
less bland, and not so hideous.
It arrives, half-cold and sweaty;
To plate it seems ridiculous.
I warm it in the microwave’s glow,
Its grease congeals to sludgy paste.
One bite confirms what I should know;
Regret is all I get to taste.
Fast food is fast, but food it's not;
Now it squirms, coiled in my gut.