Snapple Fact Lolly Pop

"The lollipop was named after one of the
most famous Racehorses in the early 1900's, Lolly Pop..."

Type II diabetes has become an epidemic in America.
Maybe we've been betting
on the wrong horse
to win this graveyard race.
The body craves sugar because
in the early morning of humanity's childhood
before we domesticated animals,
before we plowsheered hunting into recreation,
before we buried gathering to reap crops from soil,
sugar was a lottery ticket.
And now we can find it on every street cornerstore --
we put the gross in grocery.
Our bodies
have not kept pace with our abundance.
Lollipops are winning this race
because we're such suckers
for everything that's easy.
Every birthday comes with cake,
but we have to be careful
with having our cake and eating it too
because if we're not careful,
birthday cake could become necrotic tissue,
could become retinopathy,
could become hear disease, nerve damage, stroke,
and these are only some of the side effects of diabetes.
Killing ourselves
has never been so sweet.

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This poem is not finished yet. It was based on a wonderful workshop that came from kind of a joke: Buy a snapple... read the fact... That fact becomes your first line... And write.

I'll write SOMETHING happy... sometime... I promise. Today was just heavy. And I needed to expel some of the lead through my pencil scratches.

Thanks for reading!