Joe Doakes, perhaps in a bit of a blank verse mood, emails:

Some parents aren’t competent to pick their own children’s lunch menus

So their kids are fat

And develop health problems

Which the parents can’t afford to pay to treat

And which society isn’t willing to leave untreated

Because children shouldn’t suffer for their parents incompetence

So we treat the children

And we pay for it

And it costs a lot

Which runs up the deficit

Which we should prevent

By reducing spending on sick kids

By reducing the number of fat kids

By stopping kids from getting fat

By picking their lunch menus for them

Using union public employee lunch menu pickers

Who receive wages and health insurance benefits

Which cost a lot

Which runs up the deficit

Until the money runs out

And society collapses

So we go back to letting parents set their own kids’ lunch menus

And some kids get fat

And they develop health problems

But their parents can’t afford to pay for treatment

Because society has collapsed

Because we ran up the deficit

By hiring union public employee lunch menu pickers

Instead of letting parents pick their kids lunch menus

And letting children suffer because for their parents incompetence

The way they’ll have to suffer

When society has collapsed

Joe Doakes

Como Park

Joe should read this at a poetry slam sometime soon.

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