sometimes i pull up my shirt look down at my bare tummy and sigh.
why can't you be better, tummy? why can't you be smaller nicer softer better?
like a child i am chiding tut-tutting at its misbehavior
tummy, i do so much for you i skip meals and don't drink water and wrap you in all kinds of weird dyi concoctions and lotions i take pills and cry before seeing the boy that i like all for you, tummy.
why can't you be like the other ones why must you be the way you are?