Cabbage

(after ‘I like that stuff’ by Adrian Mitchell)

Humphrey Bogart died of it

People are terrified of it

cancer

I hate that stuff

Peter Sellers was laid low with it

one in five of us will go with it

heart attack

I hate that stuff

Monroe’s life turned sour on it

Hancock spent his last half hour on it

sleeping pills

I hate that stuff

Jimi Hendrix couldn’t wait for it

Chemistshops stay open late for it

heroin

I hate that stuff

Mama Cass choked on it

Blankets get soaked in it

vomit

I hate that stuff

Women learn to live with it

No one can live without it

blood

I hate that stuff

Hospitals are packed with it

Saw my mother racked with it

pain

I hate that stuff

Few like to face the truth of it

We’re all living proof of it

death

I hate that stuff

Schoolkids are forcefed with it

Cattle are served dead with it

cabbage

I hate that stuff