Cancerous Frivolities

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Are you as annoyed as me to hear the "breaking news" on cell phones?

Does it feel as if they're taunting from upon their knowledge thrones?

I too was bothered by the seeming lack of new information

and the reality that technology was enduring degradation...

until one day I found the list of knowledge I desired.

The following is a summary of what, henceforth, transpired.

I was eager to learn what other items were equally polluting,

but as I read the list, few of the words were computing.

I decided to google one from each letter group

and avoid those cancer causers like strange looking goop.

Acetaldehyde proved there's be something to dread.

I read that it occurs naturally in coffee, fruit and bread.

That sounds much harder to avoid than use of cell phones.

Plus, I bet its remnants lie within many more bones.

Bracken ferns was the next "word" that attracted my eye.

I doubted it was something that I'd given a try,

but lo and behold it's a fairly ordinary plant!

If I had one in my house I'd be writing a rant.

C is for cell phones which now sound much less scary.

(Thank goodness, 'cuz I'm addicted the one that I carry.)

Learning what Dacarbazine was made me laugh a bit,

but it also makes me want to call someone a twit.

A Chemo drug that could cause the very thing it cures?!?!

Would you prescribe it to any ill friend of yours?

As I reached the E's I knew that my search was futile.

Seeing "engine exhaust - gasoline" on the list just felt brutal.

A world without cell phones, cars, bread, fruit or coffee???

Sorry, but that is not a world I'm dying to see.

I'll try to avoid silly obvious causes like smoking

and wear a mask when around fumes that cause choking.

Basically, it'll have to be more risky than this

to interfere with my desire for maximum bliss.

You can choose a life much more cautious if you want,

but my desire for cell phones, bread, fruit and coffee I will flaunt!

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