Wednesday's Word: Calories

With birthday cake and vacation , my diet has been inundated with fattening things this past week, so this week's word has got to be calories. This is not a new poem, but it fits what has impressed me this past week.

Cookies and cakes,


chocolates and cremes;

confections galor

collect in my dreams.

Though cheerful and calm

this culinary chant seems,

it chugs and it churns,

and to my conscience it screams

that my closet and clothes

contain no more room in their seams,

and celery and chard

should compose my calorie teams.