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Haibun by Betty Kaplan

To Diet or Not
by
Betty Kaplan

Let's talk dieting.

You've been perfectly happy eating three meals a day, and maybe a snack or two. But then you decide to go on a diet. Now, which one? So you read all the diets and get thoroughly confused. Watch the carbs, the sugars, and the fats. With the fats: which ones are good and which to stay away from?

Now you spend hours in the super market reading labels.

And the final outcome? All you think about is FOOD

The squirrel

hides the acorns

forgetting where

Retired from the Fashion Industry. Used to arrange clothes. Now arranging words. Started to write haiku five years ago. Published in Frogpond, Lynx, Woodpecker, South by Southeast, World Haiku Review and American Tanka.