Bread

Source: bbc.com
BREAD
    the carb-bomb 
    the gluten sewer
    the empty calorie truck-stop backstab
          to healthy balanced living
miscreant and fool enabler
of a clearcut civilization
that stares down the forest primeval
seeing only empty fields of monocrop gold.
BREAD
    public enemy #1
    sower of growing intolerance
    maligned substance of ancient abuse
    and ultimately, unthinkably,
             the compact vehicle
                   of salvation.

Greg Kennedy, SJ works as a spiritual director at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Reupholstered Psalms volumes I, II, and III; and Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints (Novalis Press).

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3 Comments
  • Peter Bisson
    Posted at 01:07h, 12 July Reply

    Thank you Greg!

  • Peter Chouinard
    Posted at 05:59h, 12 July Reply

    Cool poem!

  • Michelle Mahoney
    Posted at 05:46h, 13 July Reply

    You’ve done it again, Greg! Great ‘Food for thought!”

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