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Gluttony and I
by Lonnie Hicks → (All Poetry by Lonnie Hicks)
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Gluttony I have Gluttony's appetite! my calories intoxicate. Food plumps my mental wit; eating slight dulls merriment. Fill my tankard now! Let Gluttony abound! Heave comestibles round my plate! Obscure my seat mates stick-thin bags of bones. I vowed at 35 to then forsake the premature death self-denial brings. At death, in a coffin large, perhaps, no one will shame or condemn me simply because I ate my fill and bedded down with Gluttony. No one will say at my Wake "My he looks beautifully thin" rather I fully expect they'll ignore the matter of weight and comment "Humm. he looks real good dead." So I ask why should I restrict my draught and food intake? I hear the cat-calls and pleas all around "Keep eating that way and you will put your health at risk" Maybe, but, we will all someday, in life, check out through double doors on high I for one want to order first a burger and some fries! Put there, too, in stone my final epithet; "He had a good time- Ate Everything In Sight." PS. While others at the funeral debate the yang and ying slip over by my coffin top won't you some spicy chicken wings! When they bury me, ignore those munching sounds you hear below the coffin closed. Some caviar, an aperitif at work, I suspect the happy traveler! Remember this: "Misunderstood he was and, too, dear friend Gluttony." So Gluttony smuttony. Who gives a care? Pass me friend the large ladle and an hour from now all of this will go to the wind! Gluttony, Gluttony friend to the end!

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors

Reviewed on July 6, 2011

More beer! More beer! And a coney dog or two. You can't take it with you. Patrick

Reviewed by John Flanagan

Reviewed on June 29, 2011

I love the point of view, Lonnie, LOVE it!!
This is witty, intelligent, funny and carries
in its light, well delivered lines a real message.
Yes!

John

Reviewed by Christine Tsen

Well your writing is very sweet-tasting Lonnie!
Blessings,
Christine