Kaleidoscope by June Stepansky - HTML preview

DIETARY RUMINATIONS

Before there was cholesterol,

before there was fat and sodium,

there was just food.

You liked it or you didn’t.

You could eat

whipped cream

 shrimp

ice cream

lemon pie

prime rib

 chocolates

 everything.

Now each choice is

calculated, measured, researched,

each meal an agonizing dialogue.

Captain Kirk, beam me back to the past,

before I began to read labels,

before I knew anything.

I long to sit down to dinner again

and just savor it.