©1992, by Susan Noyes Anderson, Infinity Limited

They tell me
that I’m getting
thinner.
“Dwindling away to
nothing”
was the phrase.
Naturally, I love it
and it’s going
to my head.
I get off on all the
second looks and
praise.
There’s just
one
little
stone
that mars my course.
I’m so
hungry
I could easily eat
a horse.