Poem- “Breakfast Cereal”

“Breakfast Cereal”

He remembers the old food.

The food was good, healthy, and delicious.

But, the food eventually went bad.

Good food became old food.

He remembers the old food.

The food used to be good, healthy, and delicious.

Now he doesn’t like the food even if it’s good.

He doesn’t just think the old food is bad.

Now he thinks the good food is bad.

The old food is bad.

It stinks, rots, and turns green.

The old food can be like rotten milk.

Rotten milk was good milk.

However, he makes a terrible mistake from the wonder.

He doesn’t just hate the rotten milk.

Now, he hates good milk.

He thinks good milk is “crap”.

He believes good milk was always “crap”.

It’s a lie.

Milk is good, healthy, and delicious.

He enjoyed the milk.

The milk was wonderful and a very nutritious drink.

So, what’s happening?

Why is his belief a “lie” of sorts?

Because good milk is not “rotten”.

But, he remembers rotten milk and gives good milk a false label.

He calls good milk “crap” because of rotten milk.

This is a falsehood.

It’s dishonest and unworthy.

His thinking skill is totally wrong.

Good food comes with an expiration date.

Keep this in mind!

It’s only “bad” AFTER expiration date.

The food was good until expiration date.

And, if the food is made again, the food can still be good.

Only old people have that much disgust.

A younger audience would hear him and think he’s a mean old man.

Should this man even begin to be “rotten” himself?

He can’t just throw himself away.

The food is good until expiration date.

And, rotten milk can still be a common result of good habit.

And, even after food goes bad, he still has nice memories of “good” food.

Doesn’t that history mean anything to him?

Or, was the past, even his birth, just “an accident” like milk and honey?

Keep your history and represent the past as it was, not just as it is.

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