[Roger Slater]

What Petra said goes double for me. Boring. Very well written, high level of craft, but nothing even faintly resembling an original thought, perspective, joke, spin or take. Just "too bad we now know that so many really delicious foods are bad for you," and another use of the word "tofu" as if the mere mention of it were good for a laugh. All of this is mixed in with a vague suggestion that things were better in olden times before the food police took over and ruined everything.

The fact that it's in a Villon package with bits and pieces of other canon allusions thrown in for good measure doesn't change the pedestrian nature of the poem or validate or reinforce anything that the poem is saying, which is pretty much what everyone on earth has said at one time or another.

But yes, it's a demanding form and it's been well executed in formal terms, almost enviably so. But formal mastery isn't enough, of course, and the poem is more like whole wheat pasta than mostaccioli.