I can't eat anything at all these days 
I seem to be allergic to it all!  
I can't have any dairy products 
you know what that does to us all?  
 
So I tried to eat Vegetarian style 
like beans and sprouts and grass!  
Well you know what that did for my reputation?  
I got rid of a lot of friends, with all that noise and GAS!  
 
Then I tried that South Beach Diet thing 
Then, No carb, and low carb too!  
I got so bone thin from all of that 
I looked like some skinny, sick buffoon!  
 
I had to shop in the kids department 
to find some clothesfor me to wear. 
Now a woman of sixty, can you picture this?  
In an outfit imprinted with little pink teddy bears!  
 
My boobs were hanging down to my waist!  
And my hair started falling out!  
I must have looked a sight to others!  
Every time that I stepped out!  
 
A gust of wind came up  
and took me flying down the sidewalk one afternoon!  
I was grabbing on to anything available 
pulled down some old ladies pantaloons!  
 
So what can a person eat these days?  
to stay healthy, fit and trim?  
I'll just have to chew on all the boxe's I guess?  
that all that stuff I can't eat comes in?
Linda Winchell
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/can-t-eat-anything-these-days/