Would you like cream and sugar?
Well, cream yes, but sugar is problematic.
Columbus and other white men
brought sugar and then,
slaves on Caribbean plantations,
a hundred thousand Louisiana slaves,
immigrants working Hawaiian fields,
all for white gold, queen sugar.
Now obesity, overview of an epidemic
Diabetes slipping to dialysis;
fatty livers tipping to cirrhosis.
Supported by four billion in annual subsidies.
Don’t get me started on corn syrup.
But then, seduction:
Just a spoon full of sugar.
Sugar can be the willpower you need to under eat.
Sugar can give foods the sweet taste we know and love.
Some things give solid satisfaction.
Here’s how sugar can help.
Come over here, sugar, you’re my sweetness.
Talkin’ about that spoonful.
Sure, why not?
