Livin' Large

For the love of all

Holy mackerel

I can't believe

My eyes

One in four

One in four!

Are livin' large

I read today

In a newspaper

While I sat

Highlighter

Hair wrapped

In cellophane

One in four

One in four!

Are livin' large

Who's to blame?

Society and its

Standards of living?

The industry that

Promotes chub

A tub tub?

Awww...

Isn't she cute

With all that flub

Can we handle

The excessive rise

Of glucose

In the rivers of blood?

Or the hyper mania

As pressures rise

Rise, rise, rise

While we're downing fries?

Surrounded by

Evidence

We can't deny

We murder each

Other, by the

Examples we teach

One in four

One in four!

Are livin' large

Livin' large

As large as a barge

In a country

Of poverty

How did we

Get so fat?

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