Forty Poems for Forty Pounds

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Hurting I want to spread every feeling across hot buttered toast and eat and eat forever. Grow as big as a house the biggest ever so everyone can see how much I'm hurting. And I want to never eat again. Sew my lips shut hold up a hand and shake my head no, no, no. Never eat again and look so thin, so tragic that everyone can see how much I'm hurting.

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