Quick internet search
For vegan recipes
To cook.
So disappointed
Extreme sodium levels
Awaiting heart disease occurrence
No thanks.
No health benefits
In changing diet
I will never see
Health advantage.
We're told
Need to reduce
Sodium intake.
Avoiding restaurant meals
Like the plague
Not that I eat
At McDonald's.
But still
Process food industry
Is ever so slowly
Killing us.
Protesting against reforms
Lowering sodium levels
In foods.
Therisa © 2019
Author’s note: During an internet search for vegan recipes for my new Instant Pot cooker, I found many of them that included nutritional breakdown, had extremely high levels of sodium with 50% or higher, for daily suggested intake. Personally, I refuse to use these recipes, until I can figure out, how to reduce the sodium levels to more acceptable levels.
Sigh.
This poem is in a new form invented by a person, who is close to me and wishes to remain private. She calls the form 'arch', in which the 4th stanza is – as she says – 'much like the keystone is for an arch, holding both sides together'.
The poem is 7 stanzas long, with 69 words. Stanzas break down as follows:
1st stanza: 3 words/3 words/2 words
2nd stanza: 2 words/3 words/4 words/2 words
3rd stanza: 3 words/3 words/4 words/2 words
4th stanza: 2 words/3 words/2 words
5th stanza: 3 words/3 words/4 words/2 words
6th stanza: 2 words/3 words/4 words/2 words
7th stanza:: 3 words/3 words/2 words
