Food: The New Luxury Item
Who thought that we would ever see
A time when costs per calorie
Had risen high enough so we
Start thinking food’s a luxury.
When prices for a hunk of cheese
Could put one in a dollar squeeze
When costs for milk sold by the quart
Could get a parent overwrought.
When bread and eggs, the basic fare
And fruits and veggies, bottled beer
The stuff on which we all depend
Would fam’ly budgets badly rend
The reason? Grain-to-ethanol
Supposed to make the pump price fall
It seemed a good idea to some
In retrospect though…
Dumb, dumb, dumb!
Copyright 2008 Michael Silverstein
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