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Back then it was pizza, donuts, and soda

Sometimes all in one night.

Back then I went to bed with gum in my teeth.

Back then I had all the candy I could eat,

My favorite flavors being blue 1, yellow 5, and red 40.

Back then I put sugar on my cereal,

And then some honey,

Some honey’s disguised as the real stuff,

And this one? It’s just corn syrup.

I drink sugar with my tea,

Not the loose leaf kind, but the dustings.

Pesticides?

Yes please, and a tea bag with PFAS, make sure there’s plenty!

Made with real cheese and added Vitaminis

Here, this will help your kiddies study good,

Here, this pink and green yogurt will help their bones grow with ease

Soon enough, though, they’ll be suffering from disease.

Sugar as a health affliction 

Who could have predicted such a tragedy?

Started as a slave affliction

Who would’ve thought?

The masters’ got to schema making

Who would’ve thought?

And so we take prescriptions,

Aching

For the food that makes us sick

The pills are coated in maltodextrins

To “help us swallow” it.

Instead of chicken feet, they now allow us into the house.

They feed us greasy, sweet and fried shit and call it playing host

All we wanted was our 40 acres, a place to sow our seeds,

You didn’t have to poison us to cover up your bad deeds.