The Diet

Doctor, can you help me shed this weight?

Oprah says it’s all the feelings I ate

But it might be the opposite

I didn’t

Digest it all

I heard my voice the other day

Played back to me

It played so different from what I’d hoped

It was crushed under a house

Reaching out

As if

It knew it had a chance

Still

If I open my throat out a little more

Sound out

Round out the words a little more

Maybe I will hear myself

And feel my weight

Instead of eating these things to remind me

I am here

I exist

I am heavy

click them heels, you wicked thing, we know you're in there