Grocery Shopping: A Poem

Milk, butter, eggs, and bread

Are on my list today.

Now in the store, cake, chips, cookies, candy

Lead me far astray.

Back on track to the produce side

For eggplant, onions, tomatoes and kale;

At last I reach the bread;

And find it out, or stale.

Up and down the grocery store,

Bulging with foodstuffs galore.

At every turn, my eyes grow wider,

I want more and more.

Up and down the grocery aisle;

Resistance, alas, is fu-tile.