Jimmy on the Wagon

Quite why he thought the need to diet, nobody could say,
but Jimmy Parker bought a book – began that very day
“Away with burgers, chips and fries and all that stands between
the healthy and good looking chap that my mum had said I’d been.
From now on I’ll eat carrots and a cup of steaming rice
I’ll stay away from chocolate bars and everything that’s nice.
When I go out to restaurants, a salad I’ll devour
instead of birianis and a nan with leavened flour.”
His mother asked the doctor who responded with a sigh
“He misread my report,” he said. “I wrote that Jim should die.”