Wednesday, March 15, 2023

If It's Good for You, It Must Taste Awful

Remember all those medicines

You took when you were little.

Paregoric, castor oil, vile liquids

Blackened to opaque.

Mom said, "It will make you better", but I do believe

I'd rather have green apples

And a three-day bellyache.

Where is justice? Sweet as honey.

Who decided in such haste

That everything that's good for you

Should have such awful aftertaste?

Flavor it with grape or cherry.

Mix it with some orange juice.

Tease it with a twist of lemon.

Bribe me with a chocolate moose.

Why can't ice cream be a cure-all

Instead of what we must endure?

Then we'd all be clamoring

To catch the illness for the cure.

Life is filled with irony

And one thing is always true...

It most likely will taste awful

If it's really good for you.

 

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