Pot Luck Lunch Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Where are the candy bars?
Where are the Coke and Pepsi machines?
They are still here, along with cafeteria items.
Along with those who give cancer sticks.
Oh those fine cuisines.
The top two will surely get your health with unease,
The high fructose corn syrup and the refined sugar, if you please.
The cafeteria items are made to last a century,
The BHT’s, the salt content,
can lead to high blood pressure,
Which can cause strokes,
The machines that dispense the cancer sticks,
Only in cocktail lounges, --the sticks will yield someone to cancer,
But there is a device that would help, not a cure, not an answer,
But the vending machine gives the ease of pain,
When their medical approach is futile not much to gain,
Except “getting high”.

“At the Timothy Leary Medical Dispensary in the San Fernando Valley, the vending machine is accessible only during business hours.”

What a trip!
It like having the Reverend Jim Jones manufacturing soft drinks,
Don’t you want a sip?

“Marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states.”

This was the ideal the South fought for,
But it was defeated by the North,
States rights versus federal,
Democracy it is an ideal,
--but subsequently not brought forth.

(1-30-2008)