Salad for Dinner

In our ongoing battle

Of the middle-age bulge

We eat a lot of salads

For dinner, big salads

Every single week

And I actually enjoy

These salads, making

Them and eating them

Crave them, in fact

So it's a good thing

The salads contain a

Smorgasborg of yum

Fruits and veggies

Nuts and crispies

Chicken, peppered ham

Mesquite-smoked turkey

Cheese, lots of cheese

Hard-boiled eggs

(No yolks for me, oh no)

And as I told

My Chuck tonight

When he gave me

A hug and thanked

Me for dinner

I said:

Yes, I like them too

They're better than

Eating fried foods

Which I can't eat

Anyway, anymore

Because it hurts my

Middle-aged stomach

But.....the next time

We do choose badly

It's going to be

Fried chicken.