Food for Unthought

Food for thought has become quite a rare delicacy these days

Our intellectual taste buds are yearning for flavorful tidbits, delicious quippets, and insatiable snippets

Yet the food we feed them comes up short

Our palate salacious for something much more

We fill our minds with what doesn’t fill us

Consuming distractions like potato chips

One by one by one by one until we realize we’ve mindlessly eaten the whole bag

Hating ourselves for eating that second slice of cake

Yet finding we’re still lured by its luscious lacquer of frosting

Coming away either empty like we started

Or full to the point of puking

In either cases our thoughts haven’t really thought

And in truth they ought not

Because the food we fed was foolish junk

Spoiling our dinner

In essence we’re spoiling our minds to thoughts worth thinking

We’re consuming rubbish round the clock

Believing that constantly shoving something down our throats will somehow satisfy

Indeed we’ve made food for thought an abnormality

While food for unthought a commonality

Food fit only to mind the mindless is what we fill our minds with

Never giving thought a thought

…chew on that.

Originally posted 11/14/16

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