Wait
– to eat
think plan
Is it time yet?
Watchers
– look! Chocolate cake! Baguette! EVOO!
Look down. Globular.
Breasts, diaphragm, Belly, pubic bone.
A hemisphere.
Watch! they reappear
they disappear
Watch me skinny
Watch me w i l l o w
Watch me sylph
Weight
– Dumb-bells. Bar bells. Wine glass.
Watchers
– Scale – up and down
a song a voice a range a rage
Do-ray, ME, me ray Bread dough
Count
Food Scrabble
Wait
– Is it time yet?
Pointless at 3:00 p.m.
0 points. Zero. Zero.
Wait until tomorrow.
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I just spent an entire week at a medical conference all about biochemistry, stress and food….. Very complex and I feel like this poem. Last day I was in rebellion and happily ate an ice cream sandwich on the way to the gluten free dairy free conference.
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Bravo! You have channeled the brave and wonderful Candice Bergen whose comments about being “fat” inspired this poem.
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Where do I find those comments? Thank you!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3006780/I-ve-30-pounds-don-t-care-Candice-Bergen-says-s-happy-fat-fondly-recalls-days-playing-feisty-TV-reporter-Murphy-Brown.html
Here’s one of the stories but if you Google Candice Bergen lots of others will pop up.
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