VITAMINS AND MINERALS

1. The Rooms Look Bad
2. The Man, So Stuck
3. He Wants to Move
4. He Takes a Nap
5. He Falls Away
6. He Sleeps Too Much
7. He Needs to Breathe
8. He Finds the Book
9. Just for Example
10. And So He Does
11. Just Follow Me
12. He Grabs Some Cake
13. It Comes to This
14. The Soul Seems Lost
15. Kick Ass




12.

But—

He grabs some cake. He grabs some cake.

THE MAN:

Now this is what I’d rather eat.
It may not have your vitamins, but to me, this is complete!

He grabs some cakes. He grabs some cake.

THE MAN:

This to me is more enticing!
I get a rush from all this icing!
Who says I shouldn’t or I should?
This is natural and this is good!

THE SOUL:

Of course, it’s natural, but Death is too.
I’d be more cautious if I were you
To let Nature take Her nature path.
I hate to burst your bubble now, but Nature, as She may have beauty, also has Her wrath.
Like earthquakes or a shark attack.
Cancer or a heart attack.
Like forest fires and a hurricane.
Tobacco and some sugar cane.
But sugar if the truth be told
Is fine to eat it it’s controlled.
But for you however it destroys your health.
One taste of sugar and you go crazy, you can’t control yourself.
You lose yourself, you lose your verve.
You tangle up your dangled nerves.

THE MAN:

I beg to differ. It makes me looser.

THE SOUL:

I beg to differ. It makes you stiffer.

THE MAN:

It makes me sweeter. Makes me whole.

THE SOUL:

Then prove to me you’ve got control.


He grabs some cake. He grabs some cake.

03/19/2008

Author's Note: Vitamins and Minerals was written in June 2003. It was originally performed as a One-Man-Poetry-Show at One Arm Red Theatre in DUMBO, Brooklyn. You can read the poem in its entirety. Or broken up in 15 individual pieces.

Posted on 03/19/2008
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