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.
Bravo! You have channeled the brave and wonderful Candice Bergen whose comments about being “fat” inspired this poem.
Where do I find those comments? Thank you!
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.