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Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
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Time hurries on This is completely stream of consciousness. For better or worse, I didn't edit a thing or take a moment to revise. I'm not looking at this as traditional poetry, even though I consider myself a traditional poet. This is therapy. I hope someone else feels it the way I do.
-Lisa
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
Sure, they say
Statistically,
that bulimics tend to be of
Average weight,
Sometimes overweight.
Well, that all depends, I think
on how determined you are
To hide your disease,
on how much you want
to be thin.
Did I say want?
Did I say me?
Well, somebody wants
Emaciation,
but I'm not so sure
it's me.
I bet my pocketbook's
On par
With a heroin addict's.
Ok, maybe not a heroin addict,
but certainly a crack head.
Why didn't I choose drugs for my
Addiction?
That's what it is, you know.
I know,
oh I definitely know
because I'm jonesing
for a fix
All the time.
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
Diet pills are cheating.
I only use caffeine because
I like the way carbonation tastes.
Does carbonation
taste?
Can I taste anymore?
Well, I can lose weight
Or, somebody can,
Emaciate,
but I'm not so sure
it's me.
Ten minutes after eating is
Ten minutes too long.
Five, four, three, two, one...
Any length of time
between lips and my
Porcelain lover
is a time too long.
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
God, I'm glad
I stopped counting
Calories.
I stopped after I gave up
being Anorexic.
It's too hard to hide
how sick I am
When my bones
Protrude
just so.
If I can't be
Emaciated
on the outside,
Then I sure as hell
Will be
on the in.
I don't want to know
How many pounds
of Food
I can consume
in a day.
Consume,
That's a funny word,
as if I ate
any of it.
My biology teacher in
Tenth grade
once told me that
you couldn't gain any more weight
From your food
than what that food weighed.
So, if I purge my food's
Weight,
Won't I stay thin?
Did I say I?
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
I hate laxatives.
Mine are pink
because they're made for
Women.
Women?
Am I one of those?
They taste sweet
on the outside.
Who would've thought
you could sugarcoat a
Laxative?
Well, at least now I know
I can purge at both ends.
God this hurts.
Why do I do this again?
Did I say I?
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
Sure, that's right,
keep purging for years and
you'll get to lose
Another
type of weight.
Physically, it's negligible
But it sure is
Heavy
to me.
I wonder
if all my teeth
ever added up to a pound?
Well, they sure didn't
by the time the
Maxillofacial Surgeon
cut them
out of my mouth.
Eighteen
and
Edentulous.
Oh, look it up.
But, how's that
for cruel irony?
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
Oxymoron time:
Thinness feels like
ten thousand pounds,
and ten thousand pounds
of Food
only make you feel empty.
Eat whatever you want and still lose weight!
