eating disorder
Writing
AN AUTOMATON TEACHES YOU HOW TO CODE ANOREXIA
By Julie Phamfirst; to detect a charlatan, check pulse.
is it too fast? then it’s a fake.
body too fat? a fake.
Hollow
By Emily WilkinsonI am in love with a girl… who is afraid of breakfast,
who brews coffee in the morning like gasoline feeding a starving engine.
Her fingers dance around the machinery of her waist out of step with reality.
Counting by the Calorie
By Tara Phillips145: i looked normal for a girl my size, a little extra meat on my bones but nothing to make me despise the body i lived in. Until i started comparing myself to the girls around me. maybe i should lose a couple pounds see that’s how it started.
Immesurable Distances
By Leah MenschThe summers of my childhood meant dirty feet from playing ball without shoes, calloused hands from one too many rounds of the monkey bars, and racing to eat popsicles before the humidity melted their contents away. I was a good kid, but also a curious one.
Counting Calories
By Neha Sridhar(A palindrome poem meant to be read top to bottom,and then bottom to top)