Jokes

I am not writing this

to get attention

or pity

or so people will tell me

I'm beautiful the way I am.

I am writing this

because when I post a poem about

being terrified to look at myself

because I hate what I see,

it should not be added to a collection titled

Humorous.

I am writing this

because when I sit at a lunch table

without a brown paper sack,

boys should not laugh when they ask

what, are you anorexic?

I am writing this

because when I watch Disney Channel

with my eight-year-old cousin,

I should not hear jokes

about skipping meals.

I am writing this

because when you google

anorexia is,

the first suggestion should not be

anorexia is good.

I am writing this

because our society should not

expect people to be paper thin

but judge them

for trying to get there.

I am writing this

because insecurities

are not a joke,

*no one

should be laughing.*

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