She holds herself high
never lets it
penetrate her shield
as the words are whispered
"she's fat"
"she should stop eating"
"what does she eat? a whale a day?"
until one day
when she went home to her mother
drunk as a skunk
with liquor in hand
waving it around
"you're so fat! lose weight for god's sake!"
then her shield clattered to
the ground
and so she did
she watched the numbers climb down
on her scale
in her room
until one day she was finally
s k i n n y
