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Elizabeth Zenk
Poems
Aug 2019
the price you pay to be thin
the price you pay to be thin
you won’t even miss your fee,
it's just the feeling of empty
nevermind the color in your face,
draining into plastic bags,
filled with last nights hunger
no matter your darkening smile,
cracking into sunflower blossoms,
that you hide behind your knuckles.
don't bat an eye at your thinning hair,
swimming in your bathroom drain
strangling your hope of recovery.
now what could those tired eyes,
broken and red with strain say that
puffy cheeks and chapped lips cannot
lips like concrete, spilling weeds,
lips stuffed with cigarette love,
lips that once bloomed spoken word
but you smell of no dandelions.
you wear perfume of stomach bile
mixed with the stench of hatred.
the smell that every bathroom you visit
knows like the back of your hand,
the hand scarred with teeth’s embrace.
the side effects aren’t pretty
but that’s all a small price to pay
for the feeling of trying to be thin.
#sideeffects
#of
#bulimia
#purging
#and
#eatingdisorders
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Elizabeth Zenk
19/F/Getting There
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