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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/957242-Liquid-Diet
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
#957242 added April 22, 2019 at 1:03pm
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Liquid Diet
her contours vanish now
well, almost,
in her loose-fitting gown
and frail body
for she sleeps constantly
after her vacation
in the Caribbean
where she felt like a whale

it is as if a piranha struck
then, without her noticing
yet no fish is to blame
for the shame of a liquid diet
so I bake bread to take
to her, thinking maybe
it will help, maybe
she won’t stop breathing

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April 22--bread

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