Paddle to Paddle by Lois Chapin

Author:Lois Chapin [Chapin, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781889755106
Published: 2019-09-20T07:00:00+00:00

Never Brought It Up

My daughter thanked me

for never bringing

it up.

It was all

my mother

spoke of.

I played with Barbies

on the floors

of TOPS, OA and Weight Watcher’s.

At twelve,

she showed me

how to throw up

in the stall

at the Chinese restaurant.

My friends’ daughters

stayed

on the streets

on purpose.

On speed, the new

belted jiggling machine.

I shrunk to threats of divorce

over seven pounds,

at pig calls

over an extra five.

Soooooeeeeee!

The scale,

my magic eight ball,

predicted how

my day would go.

Studied for GRE’s

on an apple a day

and an oatmeal bar.

Counted every hated calorie.

Bragged size two.

Twenty-four inch waist.

Diluted good wine

with soda water.

Solid food on days

that began with “S”

Slim Fast for all the others.

Nine-month famish

back down

to a hundred and ten

after each birth.

Tiny was the only safety.

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