food dye 473

her body reacts to something...we don’t know

what it is, but it makes her flinch,

it’s comic almost, tragic, she can’t control it,

sometimes she can’t sleep.

my friend’s mom, she got headaches for years,

until she realized it was msg.

my new friend, they gave her medicine, it stripped her

stomach, we went out and she couldn’t eat.

my friends warn me about eating the plants i pass on the street,

and perhaps, with the cars and feces and other stretch marks of

humanity, they’re onto something, but somehow i think, perhaps

it wasn’t so bad, to taste the trees,

rather than wondering what side effects,

might come from food dye 473.