Pass The Shell Cracker! Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

With just a touch of radiation...
Tinged to contaminate minds exist.
Chemicalized beverages,
Are savored with diets perserved...
And finger licked.

Dyed meats packaged fresh...
To add to bad breath.
Sizzles on grills in those backyard bar-b-ques!
As poisoned waters feed the fish,
And of those are crustaceans...
Scavengers to delight,
And buttered as wished!

'Hmmm...
Pass the shell cracker!
What?
Now why do you insinuate I call you names?
Pass the 'SHELLCRACKER'...
That's 'all' I've been saying! '

I want to eat and not think of racial tensions,
Folks are laying down and portraying!

And we wonder why we are a people,
Deepening thick into the bowels of mental sickness!
But there may be 'something' in the food we eat...
To keep us stirred at night seeing monsters in our sleep!