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Book 35 Page 38
Dieing to be thin
She’s dieing to be slim,
eating just to binge.
Images within and a
deep longing to fit in,
and she’s;
dieing to be thin.
She’s got an inner vision
of a perfect weight,
which effectively amounts to a;
compulsive food hate,
and she’s;
dieing to be thin.
She’s taken in the messages
of a stereotypical kind of world,
of what constitutes a real woman,
and a perfect size eight girl,
and she’s;
dieing, dieing to be thin.
She’s got herself a mirror
that magically alters her size.
Got a special mirror that tells her;
little white lies,
and she’s;
dieing to be thin.
She’s got herself some talking scales
that tells her to eat less."
“Got to fit in” it says,
“to the next size below dress,”
and she’s;
dieing.
dieing, really!
dieing to be thin,
and she is succeeding.
dominicj7@poetry.net.au Mar 1 2002