Don’t worry –
I have washed my hands and chopped
today’s right-out-of-the-garden
vegetables and edible flower petals
on the wooden butcher block
per your detailed SOP
I have not snuck beef, chicken
or fish broth into the soup or
the dead flesh of any other animal
No additives, nitrites, MSG,
preservatives, sulfates,
or any other of that other junk
Strictly sea salt
I will only be serving made-from-scratch
multigrain legume and nut bread
Funny, I once skimmed
dust blown from a latrine
on the Cambodian Border
off the surface of brackish water
in my canteen cup,
and I’m still here!
As for that expensive sack of herbs,
supplements and bromides you swear by,
let it be known they have been
callously peddled since witchdoctors
mixed potions for the gullible
The old timers called them,
“Snake Oil”
Today they are labeled,
“Health Food”
Don’t worry
Everybody’s going to die,
no matter what they finger,
ingest or inhale
It’s called the cycle of life