This Was the Species that Was

Especially for Rachel:

No artificial flavors, colors, sugars,
Or chemical preservatives are used
Inside your head to manufacture boogers
Or 'round a muscle when it's been contused
Or in your gullet, breaking down the mas-
Ticated bits of cucumber-cum-cud,
Or in your villi, where amino ac-
Ids find transport from viscera to blood,
Or deep within eukaryotic cells,
Where mitochondria and ribosomes
And vacuoles and other organelles
Do business in their cytoplastic homes
Or in the whole big bodily shebang—
Oh, shit. The pancreas is drinking Tang.