One drawback of intelligence is appetite of mind,

the ever present hunger for employment or distraction.

For when the body's busy, then the brain is occupied

but boredom strikes in periods of relative inaction.

In ages past the menu didn't offer very much:

apart from formal entertainment and the usual gossip

the only fare available was fairy tales and myth

with religion added for dessert topped sometimes with an epic.

These days however, now we're blessed with wi-fi internet,

there's no unoccupied places in the mental restaurant

where tables piled high with international cuisine provide

a cornucopia of food much more than we could want.

But is our appetite ever sated now we have our smart phones?

Our snacking on our mobiles might cause mental indigestion.

At best it's just obesity but beware diabetes

from gaining all the weight of so much trivial information.