I’m not here to secretly pass myself
As an economy. I’m just a loose canon
Who ignites on real issues, like how
In this design of omnivorous, we eat
Everything thrown at us – which should really change,
After all, everything is not hunky dory.
Still chicken liver has arsenic, kan kun has got
Cadmium and so forth. We are just
A cancer or a toxicity away from,
Being brought down by the very food we eat.
All we have at our disposal, is the
Notoriety of our indulgent food habits
That scream “toxins”. Still we
Possess portly systems that scavenge
Omni-diets, that detonate on
Little taste buds on pink tongues,
While gathering away in the human liver,
Where they become, everything
Else but “liver”-prone, demonstrating
The parsimony of a miserly death,
Only slower to alcohol.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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