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On A Diet The country is on a diet, drinking coke with no sugar, eating burgers with no bun, running on the treadmill; it's powdered protein for lunch. It's straight tequila in the evening, a light head and guilty fries at night. The country is on a diet, doing yoga over yoghurt pots, training their minds with sudoku and solitaire, rubbing salt and condition into their hair. It's 6 a.m. gym sessions, it's squats on the living room floor, the country is on a diet, my friends, and so we have no time for truth, or war. The country is on a diet, avocado in the breadcrumb, aspirin in the salt-shaker, food numb on the tongue and those slim-shakes always failed to deliver. Thigh gaps and mind-the-gaps, all these signposts for a cleaner living, no dust on the shelf, no bags 'neath your eyes to hide the lack of sleep and your ailing mental health. The country is on a diet, drinking tea with no milk, eating carrot sticks with best-value dip, running on the treadmill, we never get too far. It's straight tequila in the evening, it's "anything goes" in the dark.
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM UTC
On A Diet
On A Diet The country is on a diet, drinking coke with no sugar, eating burgers with no bun, running on the treadmill; it's powdered protein for lunch. It's straight tequila in the evening, a light head and guilty fries at night. The country is on a diet, doing yoga over yoghurt pots, training their minds with sudoku and solitaire, rubbing salt and condition into their hair. It's 6 a.m. gym sessions, it's squats on the living room floor, the country is on a diet, my friends, and so we have no time for truth, or war. The country is on a diet, avocado in the breadcrumb, aspirin in the salt-shaker, food numb on the tongue and those slim-shakes always failed to deliver. Thigh gaps and mind-the-gaps, all these signposts for a cleaner living, no dust on the shelf, no bags 'neath your eyes to hide the lack of sleep and your ailing mental health. The country is on a diet, drinking tea with no milk, eating carrot sticks with best-value dip, running on the treadmill, we never get too far. It's straight tequila in the evening, it's "anything goes" in the dark.
C You can hear a spoken word version of it here: https://soundcloud.com/edwardcoles/poetry-and-music (4th performance in)
#addiction#alcohol#diet#culture#habits#self-improvement
Edward-Coles
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Edward-Coles
26/M/English
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM UTC
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