eat, drink, and be lectured

strong acid has no appetite/but eats voraciously/and black holes eat surrounding light/and time eats you and me.

when dining in a restaurant/let’s bless the beasts that feed us/and be polite and nonchalant/and tip the folks who need us.

we fill our baskets to make feast/in province state and county/and North and south and west and east/provide us with our bounty.

the bottom-feeders play the part/without which toppers languish/let’s tend our filth and show some heart/by quelling sea life anguish.

dig in with gusto yet when done/reserve, recycle, be/as life-supporting as the Sun/and live r e s p o n s i b l y.