Clean your plate
Eat your carrots and peas
There are people starving in the world
because of famine
and war
they would say around the table
Interesting how the root causes of the mass starvation
and how it was all ruthlessly enabled
were never part of the discussion
How the so-called wars and their mongerers
aiders
and abetters
those oppressed and those doing the oppression
were never paid much attention
to
during these dinner-time guilt trips
of my youth
AN FRAOCH 