Fat

Fat! As a kid Well I remember fat! I always thought I was fat because My brother called me “Pig!” Pigs are fat by nature So I thought “by nature” I am a pig At school I looked around the room Saw I was the only pig The rest were human Humans (I thought) are slender even skinny When extra milk was given out Teacher never selected me Pigs not being human should be left out so I thought Pigs should probably be penned In my mind I was surrounded by a white board fence my feet in mud When the class sang songs I snorted When I was 10 mother made me go to Sunday school The Sunday school teacher a very good kind religious sort of man told us about GREED How greed was a sin I read somewhere “Greedy as a pig” Being greedy is a sin according to the good kind religious man Well? GUILT set in I carried guilt around piggyback for years and YEARS! THEN In high school it finally dawned I wanted a girlfriend Pigs were out humans were in! I lost weight FIFTY pounds! Got me a steady girlfriend Then I found I really was a human What a LOUSY thing to be!