FOOD TASTES GOOD

Food tastes good

but I'd rather not eat

Touching a beautiful young woman

is a great honour

in this vale of tears

forgive me if I pass on this

or take a rain check

Meditation calms the fevered heart

or so the advertising goes

but it drives me

up the wall

of gossip and breathlessness

Furthermore

I don't want to be a friend to everyone

I haven't got that much time

I'm fasting

I'm fasting secretly

to make my face thin

so G-d can love me

as He did before

I had the slightest interest

in these matters