The Fat Poem

There once was a girl who wanted some more
but was told that her brother was bigger therefore
he could eat as much as his size
So she got wise
and raided the kitchen for all she was wishin' was to
grow as wide as the skies

But somehow her parents were not evenhanded
the more they denied her the more she expanded
She wanted her girth to reflect on her worth
but ended up reprimanded

When she went into town
the people would frown
as she stood in line at the store
They said it's a pity
The girl could be pretty
instead
she can't get through the door

So then she got thinkin'
if she got to shrinkin'
the people in town would agree
that she was worthwhile
and notice her smile
instead of the size of her knee

So then she got slimmer
became a swimmer and
slipped into sleek sexy clothes and
the people in town
would all gather round and
she could have any boy that she chose

But then she got sad
cause the boys that she had
wanted a thing they had seen on TV
on the walls and the screens and the malls
and the billboards and the pages of shiny magazines
This thing was not real
It was airbrushed like steel and
the girls sometimes younger than teens

She wanted to share
as much as she could
the person she was born to embody and
now she knew that people withdrew
for reasons
she thought were shoddy

When there are natural disasters
and war in Iraq
why do people care more about fat?

Its not nice to say kike
or nigger or dike
or fag or any of that
but somehow its fine
to laugh at a line
that hurts all our friends
who are fat

Imagine a day when
instead of our vision
we saw the world more through smell
We'd be screwing the daisies
and passing our praisies onto
dogs that
piss and don't tell