(20 minute poetry)

Preservative
to give to me
longevity.

Her lingerie to
give to me
Ideas.

Colouring
to give a tone to
this shop of horror
skin on bone.

Additive addictive
included in each pack,
the knack is not being
stuck with
a stiletto in your back.

But that was then in sixty two
before I knew
the damage they
could do.

Now I'm old before my time
each day becomes my drug,
my
preservative is now prescribed, where longevity was once understood it now may be denied.

My DNA wants to disqualify monosodium glutamate, but
I really like a steak and kidney pie,
the DNA will have to wait.