Shop Right Poem by robert dickerson

You are never supposed to go to a supermarket hungry.
If you do, they (the omniscient and ubiquitous They
Who are almost never wrong) predict, correctly,
You will buy everything in sight, your cart
Come rapidly to capacity soon overflowing with things
Caloric, cholesterolic, pricey and plain not good for you:
Ice-Cream (Breyer's) , nuts mixed and salted, coke, creamy
Avocados, corn awash in corn milk, a watermelon (not so bad)
Tea rose-colored inside, lime without and darkly flamed green
(now, how are you going to get that home?)
(I'm going to put it on a leash and walk it, silly)
Frozen pizzas, creme-filled eclairs (Little Debbie's) angel food
Salted this and that-you will spend a week
groaning, taking poo pills and paying bills-listen to me,
Shop right, today, but shop full