Starvation Augmentation

For the price of a 1/4 million servings of rice,
A lady can make her breasts look nice.
For all of them done within one year,
86 billion hungry faces would not tear.
All nose jobs made, just to be seen,
Yearly might feed 15 billion servings of beans.

How can one rationalize this vanity,
To me it seems like insanity.

For the cost in a year to suck out our fat,
113 billion bread servings could go in the hat.

How can you help but not to weep,
Knowing the lives starvation reaps.

Imagine the children, bloated in pain
Malnutrition killing their bodies and brains.
What would you say as they looked in your eyes,
And you knew this was their last goodbye.

To yourself, how would you lie,
Would you care or even try.
Can anyone honestly tell me why,
This squander seems so easy to justify.


by Rodney Alan Crater
Copyright ©2007 Rodney Alan Crater