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The World's Workout

Opinions like dough, gruesome and cloying, sticking to the tongue like self righteous peanut butter.

Sitting up for the wrong reasons, though it's difficult to get out of bed alone.

Counting calories like counting the number of eyes that pass over this form.

Glances flitting like shadows on cheekbones that aren't cutting, too rounded.

Running towards expectations on the necessary incline towards beautiful.

Sweat and pounds and £s for form fitting clothes, like sickly scales.

Weight resting on the soles of the right shoe for the right path towards the right body.

Weight lifted, muscles straining like Atlas with the weight of the world's eye view.

Memberships paid for, memberships given to the society of those who fit into society.

Take the leftovers, it's funny because the sight of us does not suggest the leaving of necessity.

Tightening belts until the loopholes leave us love even though we lack what is expected.

Leaving our food and gaining what you want.

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Written by
danny-osullivan
English
Published
Jul 8, 2013
Lines·Words
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Notes

A letter to society's view on beauty. Hopefully this is evident in the poem, though.

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