Size Counts Poem by Douglas Scotney

If you could see unabsorbed vitamin supplements
in your stools
like you can unchewed seeds,
you'd wonder 'what's the point? '

You can't
so you think they get in
like nicotene
and you wouldn't be YOU without.

If you could only eat them
with poisons that would kill you in the end,
sense would win out
and you'd quit...

...what's happened with nicotene
(though now,
free of other poisons,
they're marketing it.)