Bigfellas

Everybody nowadays is obsessed with their weight
the oversized folk get no peace
all the women think looking normal's size eight
and a pound over that is obese.
Body shaming's the fad, it's annoying and sad
for the people who do not conform
and being sexy's allied to a particular size
and bigger means you're not the norm.
How come Barry White, 'Walrus of love' did alright,
Demis Roussos was built like a truck,
the girls at their concerts all fainted and swooned
seems to me these guys had all the luck.
So fellahs, if you find you're all by yourself
and tired of being alone,
take a leaf from their book and get down off the shelf
just put on another twelve stones.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 2/15/2018 4:46:00 PM
HAHAHA. I cannot fit into my corset. No matter how much I force it. As I can't appear stout, With my rolls hanging out, My dinner I may have to forfeit.
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Date: 2/11/2018 8:43:00 PM
It's always men who get away with it, but I am seeing some big women in the song industry lately and in movies as well! Even as leads (though usually comedy shows) Can you imagine two obese actors as the leads of a famous movie that is a romance? Well, I think there is a happy medium, and it angers me that "medium" is usually not good enough in fashion or movie industry. I really like the humor you inserted in this insightful poem.
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Date: 2/11/2018 8:43:00 PM
so is it 9 AM there? That was my captcha!!
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Date: 2/11/2018 8:16:00 AM
as Popeye said "I yam what I yam"
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Date: 2/11/2018 6:06:00 AM
lol Mr Viv but there is a serious side to this as the media puts so much pressure on people to be a certain size and shape which is totally unobtainable to most people who can't airbrush the love handles away! Demis Roussos mum used to call him the wailing hearth rug lol:-) hugs jan xx
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Date: 2/11/2018 4:46:00 AM
Haha Viv.. you have an excellent sense of humour..
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