Diagnosis

Poetry
A useless religion;
Egghead bread
For spectacled librarians
On lunchbreaks
And coffeebreaks
In January of
Very bad years;
Unprofitable
Non-nutrative
Habit forming
Sweetner
Causing Cancer
In laboratory animals
And possible brain cell
Deterioration
Leading to everyday
Shortness of breath,
Watering of eyes,
Hollowness,
Of heart,
And loss of hearing;
Acuteness of
Life
Under extreme conditions
Bad breath.