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When Your Skinny Friend Calls herself Fat

An Original Poem

Elizabeth A. Reed
Dec 05, 2016
New Hampshire Institute of Art
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When Your Skinny Friend Calls herself Fat
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She tells me she went to the emergency room

Because she lost 12 pounds in a week.

I guess that is a problem

When you weigh less than 180. I wish

I could lose 12 pounds a week;

I have a goal of 80. My body

Mass is exactly the double of hers. I am

Either two people, or one average NFL defense

Holding a small teenager.



I ordered four boxes of Samoa Girl Scout cookies

On Wednesday

Church is in an hour, and I’m sitting at the kitchen table

Contemplating the opening of the last box

For lunch.



Sometimes when you don’t wash away your makeup before bed,

Your mascara accumulates in the creases of your eye rolls.
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