Monday, January 31, 2022

Fat is the Cause (a Poem?)

Get run over in a crosswalk by a speeding Volvo? You’d jump
to safety in a thinner body. Asphyxiate during a fire? Your lungs
would be stronger sans crushing weight. If you were a good fatty,
he wouldn’t ghost you after sex—your panties a conquest flag
he jokes is a parachute. You’re a hogtied hottie he still longs to see
when all the lights are off. A waitress scoffs as you order diet soda—
an audience to the unbelievable twist. You die inside as you brush
a too-close table and someone glares. You talk about losing weight
and exercise so your doctor sees you as human… never as good as him.
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I don't normally address fatphobia in my writing, but I am doing so more as of late. No idea why.

The next blog post should be about NFTs. I'm currently gathering information so I sound 10% less ignorant on the topic. It was supposed to be today's post, but I'm a bit overwhelmed right now.

If you haven't read my published poems from the last couple of months, I'm going to leave links right here.

2 comments:

  1. It's interesting how new themes just spring themselves on you sometimes. Like part of your brain has been fuming over that for a while, but didn't tell the rest of you :-)

    Very much enjoyed how "Rite of Passage" has two possible directions for reading and the haiku made me smile.

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    1. Thank you for reading all of it! "Rite of Passage" is a column poem. I was thinking of doing a post on how to actually write one, but I don't know if I got it down perfectly myself!

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