Joe Doakes, perhaps in a bit of a blank verse mood, emails:<\/p>\n
Some parents aren\u2019t competent to pick their own children\u2019s lunch menus<\/p>\n
So their kids are fat<\/p>\n
And develop health problems<\/p>\n
Which the parents can\u2019t afford to pay to treat<\/p>\n
And which society isn\u2019t willing to leave untreated<\/p>\n
Because children shouldn\u2019t suffer for their parents incompetence<\/p>\n
So we treat the children<\/p>\n
And we pay for it<\/p>\n
And it costs a lot<\/p>\n
Which runs up the deficit<\/p>\n
Which we should prevent<\/p>\n
By reducing spending on sick kids<\/p>\n
By reducing the number of fat kids<\/p>\n
By stopping kids from getting fat<\/p>\n
By picking their lunch menus for them<\/p>\n
Using union public employee lunch menu pickers<\/p>\n
Who receive wages and health insurance benefits<\/p>\n
Which cost a lot<\/p>\n
Which runs up the deficit<\/p>\n
Until the money runs out<\/p>\n
And society collapses<\/p>\n
So we go back to letting parents set their own kids\u2019 lunch menus<\/p>\n
And some kids get fat<\/p>\n
And they develop health problems<\/p>\n
But their parents can\u2019t afford to pay for treatment<\/p>\n
Because society has collapsed<\/p>\n
Because we ran up the deficit<\/p>\n
By hiring union public employee lunch menu pickers<\/p>\n
Instead of letting parents pick their kids lunch menus<\/p>\n
And letting children suffer because for their parents incompetence<\/p>\n
The way they\u2019ll have to suffer<\/p>\n
When society has collapsed<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Joe should read this at a poetry slam sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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