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Body Parts XII: When One Ages, Taste Doesn’t Always Keep Pace

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[Editor’s Note: This is the 12th in a series of poems from “Body Parts,” Dr. Janet Hoult’s collection of poetry about aging.]


Wasted Tasters

Nothing tastes quite like it used to

The meat or the vegetable stew­

The desserts once so sweet

Now are so hard to eat

I limit myself to a few…

Their sweetness is overly cloying

Indeed, it’s become quite annoying

And yet I don’t cease

To eat one more piece

Of that cake without really enjoying…

Our taste buds are duller and wasted

On foods that cry out to be tasted

And savored with flair.

Yet not giving a care

We eat turkey that’s heavily basted.

With butter and spices of all kinds

Herbs, oranges and lemonlime rinds

The calories climb

But we don’t seem to mind

When it all ends up on our behinds.

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Ms. Hoult, who lives in Carlson Park with her husband Charlie, may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com

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