kicking kuchisabishii

For the dVerse Tuesday poetics prompt “food!“, and inspired by The Hobart Chinaman’s post “kuckisabishii” which he translates as “eating when you are not hungry because your mouth is lonely”: 

 

I’m giving up chips,
and I’m giving up chocolate,
I’m kicking kuchisabishii!
It’s salad and dips,
and even then, not a lot,
for I’m counting ev-er-y calorie.

It’s my new resolution,
(one taken with sorrow)
to forgo all food that is yummy,
thus halt the protrusion,
(starting first thing tomorrow)
of my ever expanding tummy.

Low-fat milk’s in my coffee,
lunch a big bowl of salad,
-is that me gagging or choking!?
and for sweets, a sugar-free toffee.
See, trimmed down life isn’t all bad!
But I’m thinking of taking up smoking…