THE JOLLY GLUTTON
by Margaret Cresswell
 
I am a jolly glutton: none is greedier than I
For soup and stew and savories and steak and kidney pie,
And I am gay and cheerful as I polish off each platter,
For I can eat from morn to night without becoming fatter.
 
My friends who are on diets in their martyrdom take pride,
While envying the quantities of food I tuck inside,
And when it comes to anger, they get madder than a hatter
To see me stuffing creamy cakes and never getting fatter.
 
And so I sometimes ponder, as I pour out double gins,
On anger, pride, and envy -- they are miserable sins,
But gluttony's a pleasant sin and does not seem to matter
To those whose metabolic rate prevents their getting fatter.
 
In "The Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales," edited
by Robert J.  Hutchinson

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