SKINXBONES
1.69 CENT FOR THE PACK OF GUM YOU desperately NEED,
INSTEAD OF FOOD, CHEW THAT GUM YOU OH SO desperately NEED,
INSTEAD OF FILLING THE emptiness, YOU FEEL IN YOUR STOMACH
WITH FOOD, WHY DONT YOU FILL THAT emptiness WITH WATER, WATER
WHICH HAS NO CALORIES, WATER THAT subsides YOUR APPETITE
WHICH MAKES THE YOU MORE AND MORE EXCITED TO subside THE REST
OF YOUR FOOD FOR THE
SECOND
MINUTE
HOUR
DAY
MONTH
YEAR
DECADE
CENTURY
here is to the skin and bones you will eventually become
This poem is about:
Me
Our world