Every pretty girl
is skinny. "Beautiful?" No,
he'd never mean me.

Violent heaving death:
you deserve the punishment!
Blood, bile, cleaned off smile.

no more strawberries
blueberries, fuckberries: ALL:
give me everything!

Don't you look pretty
compared to that fat slob you're
staring at? Yourself.

Feel your collarbone;
it means progress. You don't want
to ever stop feeling bones.

Pride
Feel your collarbone;
it means progress. You don't want
to ever stop feeling bones.

Vanity
Don't you look pretty
compared to that fat slob you're
staring at? Yourself.

Gluttony
no more strawberries
blueberries, fuckberries: ALL:
give me everything!

Wrath
Violent heaving death:
you deserve the punishment!
Blood, bile, cleaned off smile.

Envy
Every pretty girl
is skinny. "Beautiful?" No,
he'd never mean me.

Sloth
I'm exercising;
not eating.       "IT'S NOT EASY
TO BE THIN LIKE THEM!"

Lust*
I must have it: be
skinny, be skinny; don't eat;
that *has to be me.

a circle of life*
The bright red leaves are whirling in the wind,
their passing reminiscent of her days,
when auburn hair would break from fragile skin
like cracking umber leaves in fall's malaise.

Her daughter saw the doctor twice a week;
the pregnancy was moving well along.
The two recalled chrysanthemum's conceit:
in life is death; and death is life's old song.

The funeral was on Thanksgiving day;
her daughter in the hospital was ripe
and could not mourn, as one soul blew away –
and one without a Nana burst in hype

to life. The birth would turn out perfectly,
exactly as expected it would be.