Food and the Penangnite

Breakfast, and lunch, and dinner, 

Simmers in the hungry Penangnite's contemplation from one meal to the 

next,

To the last morsel of Hokkien Mee;

And all our glucose levels have risen

The way to diabetes. Down, down one's gullet, Char Koay Teow!

Life's but an eating spree, a delectable buffet,

That spreads across time and space and fills one's imagination until the 

wee hours,

And then is satisfied by ingestion. It is a conundrum

Recounted by a patient to a doctor, full of flavour and fervour,

Signifying disaster.

Note: this poem was adapted from Shakespeare's Life's Brief Candle.

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