Nothing Normal About It

Wake up, get on the scales
before breakfast, naked.
Eat the breakfast you serve the family.
Garb a cappuccino and apple fritter
on your way to work, dump trash
at recycling center a couple blocks
from work. Run in and weigh
at the chiropractor’s next to office,
settle in to work station with coffee
and one of the sweet-rolls Susan brought.
Hit the candy machine at eleven.
Go to buffet with your diet buddy…
if she’s blowing it you can, four plates.
two for dessert. A Blizzard on the way home,
drop off the cup at the convenience store trash.
Weigh then make yourself vomit
then dress for dinner, the special
includes dessert, so you’ve got to eat it.
Put the exercise tape on, start,
but give it up and go to bed.
Tomorrow you’ll do it right.