Fine Dining
There are not four basic food groups,
My son tells me. There are five:
Candy, cookies, ice-cream,
Cake and soda.
That is not all: Energy drinks,
The color of anti-freeze,
Are a “mega-food group.”
And floating above it all
On the Parnassus of youth
Nutrition is Pez.
I feel ashamed to have reached
This point in my life, so ill-informed,
Yet grateful that my boy knows
So much more than I.
Ah...Progress.
Marc Zegans has penned seven collections of poems, most recently, Lyon Street (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022) and The Snow Dead (Cervena Barva Press, 2020), two spoken word albums, several immersive theatrical productions, and many poetry films. Ghost Book (Kite String Press), a collaboration with fine art photographer Tsar Fedorsky, was released in the spring of 2024. Marc lives in Pacific Grove.
There are not four basic food groups,
My son tells me. There are five:
Candy, cookies, ice-cream,
Cake and soda.
That is not all: Energy drinks,
The color of anti-freeze,
Are a “mega-food group.”
And floating above it all
On the Parnassus of youth
Nutrition is Pez.
I feel ashamed to have reached
This point in my life, so ill-informed,
Yet grateful that my boy knows
So much more than I.
Ah...Progress.
Marc Zegans has penned seven collections of poems, most recently, Lyon Street (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022) and The Snow Dead (Cervena Barva Press, 2020), two spoken word albums, several immersive theatrical productions, and many poetry films. Ghost Book (Kite String Press), a collaboration with fine art photographer Tsar Fedorsky, was released in the spring of 2024. Marc lives in Pacific Grove.
