To Hell With My Diet
by: Janet Lavergne
To hell with my diet
and attempts to lose weight.
Wouldn't you disagree
with numbering everything you ate?
Up with chocolate bars
and down with all vegetables.
I'll eat that spaghetti
til I can't get up from the table.
Duncan Hines, Sara Lee,
Dolly Madison, Pepperidge Farm;
Aunt Jermima's pancakes
with maple syrup would do no harm.
Give me meat and potatoes
and all the ice cream I can find.
To hell with my diet!
I'm just expanding my mind.
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"Indeed, learning to write may be a part of learning to read. For all I know,writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading." — Eudora Welty
"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read." — Abraham Lincoln
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." —Groucho Marx
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Kennedy
"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me." — Strickland Gillilan
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." — Walt Disney
