adapted from Diet Plan With Hormone Has Fans and Skeptics
Why do women long to take up less space
wish to be smaller
like our young children?
The thick silver syringe glistens with hCG*
an enormous and painful shot
that mimics pregnancy
Women
Under Manhattan’s skyline,of glittering and slender towers
survive on 500 calories a day
like impoverished villagers
Starving ourselves to be less
In the 1830s we ate graham crackers and vegetables
In 1850, we shunned sugar and starch
We chewed 32 times, one for each tooth in our mouths
until “the food swallowed itself.”
We shunned meat, tea, alcohol,
In the 1930’s we survived on grapefruits,
seaweeds, kelp,
`reverse calorie foods’, celery and apples.
1973, we discovered fenfluramine
Then tried crushed horns, hooves, hides,
liquids
starvation
Our battle cry is denial
Of desire, of body, of self
All of us, through the ages, longing to be less
*human Chorionic Gonadotropin
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